New Horizons College English: Listening, Speaking, and Integrated Skills Tutorial 1 National Planning Textbook for Higher Education (15th Five-Year Plan)

Author: Zheng Shutang, Chief Editor
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: "New Horizon College English" is one of the educational "New Century Network Course Construction Project," planned and edited by Professor Zheng Shutang as the chief planner and chief editor. Over 30 experienced professors and young and middle-aged teaching backbone teachers from more than ten universities in the country participated in the design, writing, and production. This series of teaching materials provides a teaching system synchronized with textbooks, audio tapes, CDs, online courses, corpus, and question bank, creating conditions for three-dimensional, networked, and personalized teaching and learning. "New Horizon College English: Listening and Speaking Course" widely draws on the writing experience of excellent English teaching materials at home and abroad, aiming to improve students' English listening and speaking skills through real-life scenarios, authentic language, and diverse exercises. It makes full use of multimedia technology to provide students with rich audio-visual materials and a self-directed learning environment. The content is extensive, the language is standardized, and it improves students' English listening and speaking skills step by step. It showcases real-life scenarios, explains cultural phenomena, and focuses on enhancing students' comprehensive cultural literacy and cross-cultural communication skills. The teacher's manual and student's manual are laid out side by side, providing teaching suggestions, listening scripts, and exercise answers for teachers' convenience. The CD contains relevant audio and video materials for each lesson, offering hints and feedback with a clear structure, easy operation, and strong interactivity. The online platform is divided into learning, resource, and management platforms, providing an open learning, management, and communication platform for teachers and students. It provides a supporting listening and speaking question bank, which can be used for tests of different purposes, supporting both online and traditional classroom tests.