Basic Japanese Practice Book (2) with Audio Cassette

Author: Xu Minjun, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Basic Japanese (Volumes 1-4) is one of the key teaching materials for Shanghai's general universities under the "Nineties" plan. Based on the successful experience of Volume 1, Volume 2 of this series was refined through two years of repeated use before finally being published. The unique features of this textbook are as follows:
1. It breaks away from the traditional grammar-centered teaching system and incorporates communicative teaching methods and structural teaching approaches widely used in world foreign language instruction. It integrates intensive reading, extensive reading, listening, and speaking to cultivate students' comprehensive language proficiency.
2. It reflects the collective wisdom and achievements of collaborative creation. The texts and exercises were written through original creation and collective discussion, demonstrating strong originality, systematicity, and practicality.
3. The selected texts cover a wide range of themes, are well-structured, up-to-date, and vividly written. They emphasize listening and speaking skills, aiming to integrate listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation through situational dialogues. The textbook is comprehensive, engaging, contemporary, and forward-looking.
This textbook is primarily designed for undergraduate and associate-degree students but is also suitable for a broad range of Japanese learners. The teaching schedule is 10-12 hours per week, totaling approximately 200 hours, with about 2,500 vocabulary words. It comes with an exercise book, an overview of sentence patterns, vocabulary, and pronunciation exercises, and audio cassettes.
The main content and basic structure of the textbook are as follows:
1. The textbook consists of 16 lessons divided into 4 units. Each lesson includes 6 sections: "Basic Conversations," "Short Passages," "Sentence Pattern Explanations," "Rest Area," "Sentence Pattern Practice," and "Daily Conversations."
2. "Basic Conversations" focuses on core topics, using dialogue examples to introduce the sentence patterns for the lesson. The topics are set against the backdrop of a foreign student's life, illustrated with visuals, aiming to help students understand Japanese customs and culture, master basic Japanese knowledge, and further expand their understanding.
3. "Short Passages" provide integrated learning content that combines sentence patterns and topics, cultivating students' reading comprehension and language application skills.
4. "Sentence Pattern Explanations" use Japan's current new grammar system for Japanese education, summarizing and explaining the grammatical phenomena of the lesson through numerous examples, charts, and tables.
5. "Sentence Pattern Practice" reinforces learned grammar knowledge through various forms of questions and dialogues.
6. "Rest Area" introduces Japanese songs, proverbs, riddles, and customs in format to enhance students' language communication skills.
7. "Daily Conversations" focus on specific topics related to Japanese life, aiming to improve students' language communication skills through short dialogues.
8. The textbook is accompanied by the Exercise Book for Basic Japanese (Volume 2), which includes 9 sections of comprehensive language skill tests: listening comprehension, vocabulary, fill-in-the-blanks, Japanese-Chinese translation, and reading comprehension.