New Japanese Extensive Reading - (Third Edition)

Author: Wang Xiwen
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: "Modern Japanese Reading Course" is an auxiliary teaching material developed to meet the needs of the development of Japanese education and teaching in China. Its main objective is to enhance students' reading comprehension, foreign language thinking, and analytical skills through guided extensive reading, consolidate acquired language knowledge, broaden knowledge and vocabulary, enrich Japanese language intuition, and ultimately achieve the goal of using Japanese for communication. This course is suitable for general reading courses in Japanese major programs, reading courses for university Japanese programs, and teaching in various Japanese teaching units. It can also be used by a wide range of self-study learners of Japanese. The design of exercises follows the principle of striving to improve understanding ability and highlighting its guiding role in teaching.
"Exercise I" focuses on vocabulary practice, selecting about five words closely related to the text comprehension as questions. Each question is followed by multiple-choice answers to practice semantic and usage aspects.
"Exercise II" focuses on content practice, selecting about five questions closely related to the text content as issues. Each question is followed by multiple-choice answers based on the text content for practice.
"Exercise III" proposes two questions related to the main theme and central content of the text, encouraging students to think, analyze, and summarize from the perspective of the discourse.
"Exercise IV" is for fast reading, selecting a short passage with similar themes and content to the main text as the language material for each lesson. About three multiple-choice questions are provided for comprehension practice.