New Edition College English Listening and Speaking Course (2) Student Book (with CD-ROM)

Author: Yu Sumei
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Publishing Date: 2004-06-01
Features: College English (New Edition) Listening and Speaking Course 2 (Student Book): To meet the new requirements of college English teaching in the new era, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press proudly launches the College English series of integrated teaching materials—comprising textbooks, audio cassettes, multimedia CDs, online systems, and a question bank, among other complete supporting resources.
Authorship Team: The entire series is co-authored by experienced professors and English teaching experts from renowned universities and publishing institutions such as Fudan University, Peking University, East China Normal University, University of Science and Technology of China, South China University of Technology, Nanjing University, Wuhan University, Nankai University, Renmin University of China, and Sun Yat-sen University.
Comprehensive and Reasonable Curriculum Design: The series consists of four types of textbooks—Comprehensive, Listening and Speaking, Reading, and Fast Reading—as well as a grammar manual. Additionally, a preparatory-level textbook is available for students with lower starting levels. Each textbook is interconnected, forming an organic whole.
Holistic Development of Comprehensive Application Skills: Each unit revolves around a theme reflecting contemporary life, while also integrating language knowledge, practical skills, learning strategies, and cross-cultural communication. This approach guides students to deeply acquire and master language and cultural knowledge related to each theme, along with rich authentic materials, and thoroughly trains their comprehensive language application skills, particularly listening and speaking abilities.
Innovative and Comprehensive Integrated Support System: The series is supported by audio cassettes, multimedia teaching CDs, a question bank, and the New Concept College English Online Teaching System. This system was developed under the approval of the Ministry of Education, meticulously designed and researched in accordance with the College English Teaching Requirements, and unanimously approved by Ministry of Education expert review panels. The entire system is complete, helping teachers create new classroom teaching models and providing students with autonomous and interactive learning environments to meet the needs of diversified, networked, and personalized English teaching.
College English (New Edition) Listening and Speaking Course is a textbook designed for non-English majors in the 21st century. It aims to enhance students' ability to understand discourse at a higher level, improve their analytical, summarizing, judging, and reasoning skills for listening materials, and comprehensively develop their listening and speaking abilities. During the writing process, the textbook focuses on the following five aspects:
1. Maintaining discourse training as the main thread throughout. From the beginning, it cultivates students' ability to identify the main idea and key points in listening, and encourages them to develop this habit.
2. Changing the traditional model of providing new words and phrases for each material.
3. Including optional materials in all exercises to facilitate differentiated instruction.
4. Providing students with abundant speaking materials. Students can engage in oral activities based on the language provided in Language Focus, Communicative Functions, Additional Vocabulary, and Model Dialogues.
5. Ensuring the organic coordination of all sections and their horizontal connections with the comprehensive textbook.