Business Simultaneous Typing - (Includes one free MP3 disc)

Author: Bai Li
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This book is a comprehensive practical training textbook designed to cultivate students' business office skills. It has the following characteristics:
Originality: For the first time, it organically integrates training in English listening, typing, and writing skills based on industry characteristics and practical needs.
Practicality: Adhering to the principle of "employment-oriented education," the content is selected and task-designed according to enterprise requirements. The socialization of teaching content ensures its practicality. The book is well-structured, progressing from simple to complex, with a strong emphasis on evaluation, facilitating the gradual improvement of students' comprehensive qualities.
Operationality: It requires minimal equipment, making it easy to teach. The book is accompanied by numerous illustrations and examples, providing a vivid and intuitive learning experience.
With the deepening and broadening of China's opening-up, rapid economic development, and the advent of the digital era, English and computers have become indispensable tools in daily life. In the workplace, especially in business activities, computers have become a "pen" in people's hands, and using computers to communicate in English has become a core part of their work. For higher vocational and technical education, particularly in English education, which focuses on cultivating applied talent, simply teaching students to communicate in English through paper or oral means can no longer meet the demands of social progress and the times. Instead, there should be a greater emphasis on improving students' ability to operate electronic media and conduct cross-border business communication using these tools.
In this context, proficient English typing skills and standardized business document operations have become particularly important—they are the foundation and essential skills that everyone must master to integrate into this communication environment.
To adapt to this trend, Shenzhen Polytechnic's School of Applied Foreign Languages introduced the "Audiotyping" course from Hong Kong in 1997. Years of teaching practice and student employment surveys have shown that the concept of simultaneous typing, after appropriate adjustments, is highly applicable in China's real business environment. Considering the current situation and the needs of reform in professional English teaching at higher vocational and technical colleges, we have decided to share our years of teaching reform and practical experience with more industry professionals. We have meticulously compiled the book Business Simultaneous Typing.
Unlike previous related textbooks, this book has the following features:
Advancement and Originality: It fully incorporates the strengths of similar textbooks from developed countries and regions like the UK and combines them with China's practical needs, for the first time organically integrating English listening, typing, and writing skills. In teaching evaluation, it combines formative and summative assessments to create a three-dimensional evaluation system, fostering an objective, fair, positive, and interactive teaching atmosphere. This transforms students from passive learners into active participants, encouraging them to value their daily efforts.
Practicality: First, the book adheres to the principle of "employment-oriented education," selecting and compiling content based on actual enterprise needs to cultivate students' operational skills, meeting the dual teaching characteristics of "school assessment" and "social assessment" in higher vocational education. Second, the tasks in the book are derived from real business environments, aligning classroom learning with practical work to develop students' professional abilities in business settings.
Systematic and Flexible: Each unit is relatively independent while following a certain structure, progressing from simple to complex. Teachers can either teach the units in order or select relevant units based on students' needs, embodying the educational philosophy of "teaching according to aptitude."
Operationality: First, simultaneous typing only requires a computer, making it easy for teachers in different regions to organize instruction. Second, the book comes with an MP3 disc, allowing students of varying levels to practice independently. Third, the book conveys information through numerous graphics and examples, presenting keyboard usage techniques and the functions of editing tools in a vivid and intuitive manner.
Broad Applicability: This textbook is not only suitable for full-time students in English, foreign-related, economic, and business majors at higher vocational and technical colleges but also for vocational training programs and working professionals or non-professionals who wish to improve their comprehensive English listening, typing, and writing skills.
The book Business Simultaneous Typing fills the gap in domestic textbooks of this kind and serves as an effective tool for training students' comprehensive practical skills.