Newly Edited English Course (7) (Student's Book)

Author: Li Guanyi
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: The 7th and 8th volumes of New English Course are designed for senior-year English majors in four-year colleges. The primary objective is to cultivate reading skills while also further training fundamental language proficiency and developing comprehensive English skills. Upon completing this textbook, students should meet the requirements outlined in the senior-year English teaching syllabus for higher education English majors. The following are the principles guiding the compilation of this course:
1. Adopt an inductive teaching approach to guide students to work independently and think critically, fostering their logical thinking abilities.
2. Select a wide range of materials to broaden students' cultural knowledge and familiarize them with different genres.
3. Include numerous language exercises to reinforce and expand students' linguistic knowledge while continuing to strengthen fundamental language skills.
4. Design exercises of various types to develop comprehensive English skills. At the advanced level, the four core skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) cannot be treated as isolated skills for training, as they are interdependent, interconnected, and mutually influential. Oral discussions should be grounded in reading but can also deepen reading comprehension and enhance writing proficiency. Writing skills derive from reading and, in turn, contribute to improving oral abilities. Reading provides the raw material for language and serves as the foundation for advanced language learning. Therefore, while the four skills are trained separately, they essentially form a unified whole in the context of comprehensive language skill development.