Advanced Chinese Reading · Volume 1

Author: Luo Qingsong
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: To achieve the overall goal of textbook development, this series of textbooks establishes the following writing principles:
(1) Adhere to the laws of language, language teaching, and language learning. Broadly absorb achievements from research in linguistics, language teaching, and language acquisition.
(2) Give equal importance to the structural patterns of language and its communicative functions, while also incorporating relevant cultural content. Broadly adopt the strengths of various teaching theories and methodologies.
(3) Follow conventional textbook writing principles: from easy to difficult, prioritize urgent needs first, proceed step by step, and ensure repetition and reinforcement. Adhere to general principles of second-language textbook writing: targeting, scientificity, practicality, and. For this purpose, the following key measures are taken in the writing process:
Focus on the accuracy of textbook positioning, using teaching syllabi and level syllabi for guidance and constraints. Balance the content to meet learners' current study and future work needs, enhance encyclopedic knowledge and philosophical reflection, emphasize diversity in themes, genres, and stylistic variations, establish the concepts of cultural pluralism and inclusiveness, communication, and understanding, and so on.
(4) Follow the learner-centered principle, with the primary goal of improving learners' language proficiency more quickly and effectively. For this purpose, the structural design, content selection, annotations and explanations, exercise design, and length of texts all adhere to the principle of moving from the macro to the micro, striving to always consider the learners' perspective and evaluate and select content from their viewpoint.
(5) Combine inheritance and development. The textbook design and writing, from theory to practice, from format creation to the organization and arrangement of all aspects, must consider its connection with and differences from previous textbooks, i.e., the issue of inheritance and development. Fully absorb the successful experiences of previous textbook writing, and carefully consider the innovation of the overall and partial aspects of the newly compiled textbooks.