New Century Graduate Public English Textbook; Reading A (Teacher's Book) (Second Edition)

Author: Gao Guizhen Wang Huili
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: With the continuous improvement of college foreign language teaching standards, the starting point for graduate foreign language learning has also been rising year by year. The National College English Teaching Syllabus and the Graduate English Teaching Syllabus have been successively revised. Based on the specific needs of graduate public English teaching in the 21st century, the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press conducted extensive and in-depth research nationwide, listened to the advice of Chinese English teaching experts and scholars, and, after carefully analyzing the current state of graduate English teaching, meticulously planned and organized more than ten key universities such as Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Shandong University, Sun Yat-sen University, Dalian University of Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, etc., to launch the "New Century Graduate Public English Textbooks" in 2002. The textbook writing follows the following principles: exercise design and activity arrangements are learner-centered, emphasizing the cultivation of applied skills; focusing on the decline in listening and speaking abilities among graduate students, it pays special attention to the development of oral and listening skills; the text materials and genres are diverse and up-to-date; it emphasizes the cultivation of translation and writing (especially thesis writing) skills; while highlighting grammar and syntax, it integrates the teaching of textual knowledge. This book is the reading A component of the series. The text content is rich, diverse in themes, and both entertaining and thought-provoking, with a balanced focus on language knowledge and skill training, aiming to cultivate students' language application abilities in reading, writing, and translation, while also addressing their listening and speaking skills. This volume is designed for non-English major graduate students at the intermediate level and can also be used by candidates for single-examination, those with equivalent academic qualifications, and engineering master's degree students.