College English (New Edition) Listening and Speaking Coursebook 2 Student Book

Author: Yu Sumei, Li Huiqin (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: To meet the new requirements of college English teaching in the new era, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press proudly launches the "College English" series of integrated teaching materials—comprising textbooks, audio cassettes, multimedia CDs, online systems, and a question bank, all fully equipped.
Authoritative and Strong Writing Team: The entire series is co-authored by experienced professors and English teaching experts from renowned institutions such as Fudan University, Peking University, East China Normal University, University of Science and Technology of China, South China University of Technology, Nanjing University, Wuhan University, Nankai University, Renmin University of China, and Sun Yat-sen University, as well as publishing organizations.
Comprehensive and Reasonable Curriculum Design: The series consists of four types of textbooks—Comprehensive, Listening & Speaking, Reading, and Fast Reading—as well as a grammar handbook. Additionally, a preparatory-level textbook is available for students with lower starting levels. Each textbook is interconnected, forming an organic whole.
Comprehensive Development of Applied Language Skills: Each unit revolves around a theme reflecting contemporary life, while integrating language knowledge, practical skills, learning strategies, and cross-cultural communication. This approach guides students to deeply acquire and master language and cultural knowledge related to each theme, along with rich language materials, and fully trains their comprehensive language application skills, especially listening and speaking abilities.
Innovative and Comprehensive Integrated Support System: The series is supported by audio cassettes, multimedia teaching CDs, a question bank, and the "New Concept College English Online Teaching System." This "System" was developed under the approval of the Ministry of Education, meticulously designed and researched in accordance with the "College English Teaching Requirements," and unanimously approved by expert groups from the Ministry of Education. The entire system is complete and can help teachers create new classroom teaching models and provide students with autonomous and interactive learning environments to meet the needs of diversified, networked, and personalized English teaching.
"College English" (New Edition) Listening & Speaking Course is a textbook designed for non-English majors in the 21st century. This course aims to enhance students' ability to understand texts at the discourse level, improve their ability to analyze, summarize, judge, and infer what they hear, and comprehensively develop their listening and speaking skills. During the writing process, the following five points were carefully considered:
1. Maintaining discourse training as the main focus throughout. From the beginning, students are trained to identify the main idea and key points during listening and to develop this habit.
2. Changing the traditional practice of providing new words and phrases for each text in previous textbooks.
3. Including optional materials in all exercises to facilitate differentiated instruction.
4. Providing students with abundant materials for oral expression. Students can engage in speaking activities based on the language provided in LanguageFocus, CommunicativeFunction, AdditionalVocabulary, and ModelDialogues.
5. Ensuring the organic coordination of each part and its cross-connection with the comprehensive textbook.