Ross / He / Chen Modern Mandarin Chinese

The Routledge Course Textbook Level 1
2. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-32741-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 478 Seiten

Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use and structures, while placing a strong emphasis on the development of communicative skills.

Each level of the course consists of a textbook and workbook in simplified Chinese. A free companion website provides all the audio for the course with a broad range of interactive exercises and additional resources for students’ self-study, along with a comprehensive instructor’s guide with teaching tips, assessment and homework material and a full answer key.

Key changes to this new edition:

- An increased number of characters introduced overall. Around 300 characters are introduced in this second edition for active production with a further 100 characters presented for passive recognition ensuring students still gain a strong foundation in reading and writing Chinese with the added flexibility of additional characters for more advanced students.

- Additional exercises in the workbooks and online to support the expanded number of characters incorporated into the textbooks.

- New cross-references between the textbooks, workbooks and companion website facilitate using all the resources in an integrated manner.

- Greatly enhanced and re-designed website.

Retaining its focus on communicative skills and the long-term retention of characters, the text is now presented in simplified characters and pinyin from the outset with a gradual and phased removal of pinyin as specific characters are introduced and learnt. This unique approach allows students to benefit from the support of pinyin in the initial stages as they begin speaking while ensuring they are guided and supported towards reading only in characters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ross, Claudia

He, Baozhang

Chen, Pei-Chia

Yeh, Meng

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Topic 1: Identifying yourself, your family, and others 1. Hello 2. What Country Are You From? 3. What is Your Name? 4. This is My Family 5. How Many People Are in Your Family? Topic 2: Shopping for everyday items 6. Shopping 7. How Much is it Altogether? Topic 3: Talking about every day activities 8. Happy Birthday 9. What Are You Doing Right Now? 10. What Did You Think of Yesterday’s Test? Topic 4: Talking about location and directions 11. Come to My House for Dinner 12. How Do I Get to Your House From My Dorm? 13. My Home is Easy to Find 14. There is a Very Pretty Park Behind My House Topic 5: Entertaining guests and talking about future plans 15. Entertaining Guests 16. Talking About Summer Plans

Über Autor(innen)

Claudia Ross is Professor of Chinese at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts. Her previous publications include Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar: A Practical Guide, co-authored with Jing-heng Sheng Ma; Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook co-authored with Jing-heng Sheng Ma and Baozhang He (both Routledge, 2006, 2014); Outline of Chinese Grammar ( McGraw Hill, 2004); and Traditional Chinese Tales: A Course in Intermediate Chinese (Far Eastern Publications/Yale University Press, 2001)

Baozhang He is Associate Professor in Chinese at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts. His previous publications include Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook (Routledge, 2006, 14), co-authored with Claudia Ross and Jing-heng Sheng Ma and Elementary Chinese (Renmin University of China, 2006), co-authored with Pei-chia Chen.

Pei-chia Chen is lecturer in Chinese at UC San Diego and previously taught at Harvard University. Her previous publications include Elementary Chinese (Renmin University of China, 2006), co-authored with Baozhang He.

Meng Yeh is Associate Director and Co-ordinator of the Chinese programme at Rice University. Her books include Advancing in Chinese (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2010) and Task-based Listening Workbook: Communicating in Chinese series (Yale University Press 1999).