Japanese Listening (Teacher's Book) Volume 2

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Editor's Note: Publishing Note With the expansion of China's foreign exchanges, the demand for multilingual communication within the country has significantly increased. The use of Japanese in fields such as politics, economy, and culture has also become more frequent. To adapt to this situation, we planned to publish a series of "Japanese Listening" textbooks and entrusted the Japanese Language Department of the College of Foreign Languages at East China Normal University to compile them. This textbook was included in the national "Ninety-Five" audio-visual publication plan.
"Japanese Listening" is a supplementary listening textbook designed to accompany the intensive reading courses for Japanese majors in universities, covering grades one to three, and is divided into four volumes. Each volume consists of a teacher's book and a student's book, with an audio cassette accompanying each student's book. Each volume has a chief editor responsible for overseeing the compilation. The teachers who accepted the writing task devoted great enthusiasm to the textbook's development. Based on years of experience in teaching Japanese, they referred to native-language education materials compiled by institutions such as the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and reviewed a vast amount of literature. They proposed a completely new approach to the compilation and arrangement of listening content, differing from the conventional methods of using existing Japanese publications for exercises. One of its features lies in breaking away from the common practice of relying on ready-made Japanese publications for assignments. The sample texts were mostly compiled by the authors based on their needs, reflecting high originality. Another feature is the accurate grasp of the weak points that Chinese students often find difficult to master, as well as the unique phonetic and linguistic phenomena of Japanese. The design focuses on Japanese real-life social scenarios, ensuring high authenticity in language, thereby maximizing the alignment between the textbook and real-life Japanese contexts. A third feature is the flexible and varied question formats, which emphasize the improvement of students' comprehensive listening skills while encouraging them to think and solve problems in Japanese, thereby cultivating their practical application abilities in the language. All these efforts aim to better embody the textbook's practicality, accuracy, and timeliness.
The compilation of this textbook was supported and funded by the Japan Foundation's Japanese Language Center for International Education, enabling the authors to travel to Japan to work on the textbook. They engaged in discussions with experts and scholars from top language institutions in Japan and, with their assistance, revised and reviewed the content word by word. It can be confidently said that both the content and form of this textbook will reach the highest domestic standards. Here, we express our deep respect and heartfelt gratitude to all the authors, as well as to relevant institutions, schools, and experts in Japan. The textbook is scheduled to be fully completed by the end of 1999. We sincerely hope that experts, scholars, and readers engaged in Japanese teaching and research will provide valuable feedback to help us continuously improve and refine the textbook.
East China Normal University Press
May 1998