New Horizons College English (Audio-Visual Tutorial) (1)

Author: Zheng Shutang, Chief Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: New Horizon College English is one of the projects under the "New Century Network Course Construction Project" in education. It was planned and designed by Professor Zheng Shutang as the Chief Editor-in-Chief, with the participation of dozens of experienced professors and young and middle-aged teaching staff from more than ten universities across the country in the design, writing, and production. This series of teaching materials provides a comprehensive teaching system consisting of textbooks, audio tapes, CDs, online courses, corpus, and question banks, creating conditions for three-dimensional, networked, and personalized teaching and learning. New Horizon College English: Listening and Speaking Course widely draws on the writing experience of excellent English teaching materials both domestically and internationally, aiming to improve students' English listening and speaking skills through real-life scenarios, authentic language, and diverse exercises. It makes full use of multimedia technology to provide students with rich audiovisual materials and a self-directed learning environment. The content covers a wide range of topics, is rich in material, and adheres to standardized language, progressively enhancing students' English listening and speaking abilities. It showcases real-life scenarios, explains cultural phenomena, and focuses on improving students' comprehensive cultural literacy and cross-cultural communication skills. The teacher's manual and student's manual are laid out side by side, providing teaching suggestions, listening scripts, and exercise answers for convenience in teaching. The CD-ROM contains relevant audio and video materials for each lesson, offering hints and feedback with a clear structure, user-friendly operation, and strong interactivity. The online platform is divided into learning, resource, and management sections, providing an open platform for teachers and students to learn, manage, and communicate. It offers a listening and speaking question bank, which can be used for various purposes, supporting both online and traditional classroom testing.