English Oral Communication Strategies (Basic Level) Including 1 Tape

Author: Paul Zhu Yajun et al. (British)
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Publishing Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This is a new English speaking textbook that combines exploration and comprehensiveness, especially suitable for learners with intermediate or above English proficiency. It can serve as a speaking textbook for lower-level university students and vocational colleges, as well as a valuable resource for English learners to overcome the challenges of speaking English. It has the following characteristics:
Authenticity: The textbook is written by renowned English educator David Paul, who founded a language school and authored textbooks with significant global influence.
Comprehensiveness: The textbook is divided into two parts—Basic and Advanced—with a total of 30 lively units covering various fields such as daily life, study, work, politics, economics, and culture.
Practicality: The textbook provides essential vocabulary, sentence patterns, collocations, and practical expressions needed for English oral communication. Interactive exercises immerse learners in real-life contexts, allowing them to experience the entire process of self-expression.
Humor: The textbook features typical, authentic, and engaging language, making learning fun and enjoyable.
As English learning in China becomes more widespread and in-depth, the focus of English teaching has shifted from "language input-oriented" to "language output-oriented," moving away from purely teaching toward the comprehensive development of language expression skills. Language expression typically falls into two forms: oral and written, with oral expression being the foundation of written language and inherently communicative. However, in the past, Chinese English teaching has lacked sufficient attention to students' oral expression skills, leading to students either speaking incoherently, nonsensically, or even being unable to express themselves at all—like boiling a teapot without water, unable to pour out a word. This phenomenon, which deviates from the actual practice of language communication, has drawn attention from relevant authorities and society. A series of teaching reform measures will be introduced.
In other words, strengthening language expression skills, especially focusing on the development of English oral communication skills, should be the current and future priority and direction of English teaching in China. Shanghai Translation Publishing House, in collaboration with U.S.-based Thomson Learning, has launched Strategies for English Oral Communication, effectively addressing this need. It offers learners with intermediate or above English proficiency and English enthusiasts an invaluable, authentic, and rare English speaking textbook.
Strategies for English Oral Communication is divided into two parts—Basic and Advanced—with a total of 30 units, each covering lively topics that learners care about and are interested in. From marriage to family, from work to study, from friends to criminals, from the past to the future, from beliefs to generational gaps, from cities to rural areas, from environmental protection to health, from tourism to transportation, from economics to politics, from a developing world to globalization—covering all aspects of life, study, and work. This textbook is a new English speaking resource that combines exploration and comprehensiveness, especially suitable for learners with intermediate or above English proficiency. It can serve as a speaking textbook for lower-level university students and vocational colleges, as well as a valuable resource for English learners to overcome the challenges of speaking English.