New Century University French 1--Student Book

Author: Li Zhiqing, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: With the deepening exchanges between China and France in fields such as economy, culture, and education, the existing university French teaching materials can no longer meet societal needs. New Century University French is meticulously designed for learners of public French and second foreign language French, emphasizing the teaching philosophy of improving students' language communicative competence, particularly their listening and speaking skills. With the further development of reform and opening-up and China's entry into the World Trade Organization, the necessity of directly using foreign languages in international exchanges has become increasingly prominent. The University French (Foreign Language) program promulgated in 1992 has brought significant progress to university French teaching in China. However, with the advancement of the times, the cultivation objectives stipulated in the original outline—"to cultivate students with certain reading abilities, preliminary listening, writing, speaking, and translation skills, enabling them to use French as a tool to acquire professional information and lay a solid foundation for further improving their French proficiency"—clearly no longer meets societal needs.