New Century University French (1) (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 abilities, particularly listening and speaking skills. As China's reform and opening-up continue to advance and with its entry into the World Trade Organization, the necessity of directly using foreign languages for international communication has become increasingly apparent. The University French (Foreign Language) curriculum, promulgated in 1992, has significantly advanced the teaching of university French in China. However, with the progress of the times, the original curriculum's objective for university French training—"to cultivate students' certain reading abilities, preliminary listening, writing, speaking, and translation skills, enabling them to use French as a tool to obtain professional information and lay a solid foundation for further improving their French proficiency"—clearly no longer meets societal needs.