New Japanese Extensive Reading Course, Volume 3

Author: Wang Xiwen, Li Qingxiang, (Japan) Yamaguchi Seimei (editors)
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Features: "Modern Japanese Reading Course" is an auxiliary teaching material developed to meet the needs of Japanese education development and teaching in China. Its main objective is to enhance students' reading comprehension, foreign language thinking, and analytical abilities through guided extensive reading, consolidate acquired language knowledge, broaden knowledge and vocabulary, enrich Japanese language intuition, and ultimately achieve the goal of using Japanese for communication. This course is suitable for general reading courses in Japanese majors, reading courses for university Japanese programs, and teaching in various Japanese teaching units. It can also be used by a wide range of self-study learners of Japanese. The exercises are designed with the principle of improving comprehension ability and emphasizing their guiding role in teaching.
"Exercise I" focuses on vocabulary practice, selecting about five words closely related to the text's understanding as questions. Each question is followed by multiple-choice answers to practice semantic and usage aspects.
"Exercise II" focuses on content practice, selecting about five questions closely related to the text's content and providing multiple-choice answers based on the text for practice.
"Exercise III" proposes two questions related to the main theme and central content of the text, encouraging students to think, analyze, and summarize from a discourse perspective.
"Exercise IV" is for fast reading, selecting a short passage with similar themes and content to the main text as language material for each lesson. About three multiple-choice questions are provided for comprehension practice.