The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries - Softcover

Lee, Kunshan Carolyn; Liang, Hsin-hsin; Jiao, Liwei; Wheatley, Julian K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415774071 ISBN 13: 9780415774079

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Covers a course for advanced students of Chinese. Written by a team of highly experienced teachers, this book offers advanced learners of Chinese a chance to consolidate their foundation in the language through a variety of activities which are designed to develop both language skills and cultural literacy.

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Review

'A timely and significant contribution to advanced Chinese instruction. Amazingly well-thought-out!' - Zheng-sheng Zhang, Editor of the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association

'The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries is one of the best advanced level textbooks I’ve ever used. Its detailed grammar notes and diversified exercises are finely designed. It saves time for teachers and helps students understand the Chinese language better. Finally we have a better choice of textbook for advanced Chinese courses.' - Min Chen, Yale University, USA

'This textbook contains the essential aspects of Chinese culture relevant for advanced learners of the Chinese language. The selected topics focus on contemporary Chinese society while revealing how the past has laid the foundation. The varieties of exercises make the course suitable for both classroom-teaching and self-learning.' - Daming Wu, Associate Professor in Chinese and Translation Studies at the University of Leeds, UK

'This book is innovative, original and pedagogically sound' - Sharon Wen, University of Houston, USA

Synopsis

"Crossing Cultural Boundaries" is an advanced level multimedia course in Chinese language, aimed at students who have completed two years of Chinese language study, or an Intermediate course. This innovative, communicative course offers content-based written texts, task-based review exercises, and online multimedia learning materials for listening comprehension and greater exposure to Chinese culture. The topics presented within the 6 units of the course are chosen from the broad themes of social change, social inequality and mobility, popular culture, Chinese medicine, philosophy and economics.A series of audio/visual modules (presented as audio on CD, as video online) contain interviews with native speakers conducted in settings in China. Through an exploration of contemporary Chinese cultural, social and political issues, the course will develop the skills and knowledge for descriptive and argumentative writing, advanced listening and speaking (including public discourse) and the ability to read and respond to authentic texts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0415774071
• ISBN 13: 9780415774079
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384