New Century University French (1) (Student's Book): Student's Book

Author: Li Zhiqing
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: With the deepening economic, cultural, and educational exchanges between China and France, the existing university French textbooks can no longer meet societal needs. New Century University French is meticulously crafted 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. As China's reform and opening-up progresses and with its entry into the World Trade Organization, the necessity of directly using foreign languages for international communication has become increasingly evident. The University French (Foreign Language) program, promulgated in 1992, has significantly advanced university French teaching in China. However, with the passage of time, 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 improvement of their French proficiency"—clearly no longer meet societal needs.