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Discover China Level 1 Student's Book and Audio CD Pack
First Edition| ©2015 Ding Anqi; Chen Xin; Jing Lili
Discover China takes a fresh approach. Its focus on communication enables learners to make rapid improvements and use Chinese in day-to-day situations.
No one could claim that learning Chinese is easy. Discover China recognizes the challenges of Chinese and helps to make lear...
Discover China takes a fresh approach. Its focus on communication enables learners to make rapid improvements and use Chinese in day-to-day situations.
No one could claim that learning Chinese is easy. Discover China recognizes the challenges of Chinese and helps to make learning and teaching effective, meaningful and enjoyable.
Discover China is specially designed for young adult and adult learners and employs a communicative approach to language learning. Emphasis is placed on pair work, group work and on a variety of speaking and listening activities to help students become confident Chinese language speakers.
Discover China gives students a comprehensive, integrated and systematic introduction to the language.
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Chinese language teaching for today’s world
Discover China takes a fresh approach. Its focus on communication enables learners to make rapid improvements and use Chinese in day-to-day situations.
No one could claim that learning Chinese is easy. Discover China recognizes the challenges of Chinese and helps to make learning and teaching effective, meaningful and enjoyable.
Discover China is specially designed for young adult and adult learners and employs a communicative approach to language learning. Emphasis is placed on pair work, group work and on a variety of speaking and listening activities to help students become confident Chinese language speakers.
Discover China gives students a comprehensive, integrated and systematic introduction to the language.
Features
Discover China focuses on the personalization of language practice to make learning real and meaningful. Language acquired enables students to tackle reallife, everyday situations with confidence. Through a variety of activity types, speaking activities begin with structured, controlled practice with full support, and move towards creative, personalized production activities. Controlled speaking activities are linked to presentation dialogues and reading texts. Activities are functionoriented, requiring learners to use relevant vocabulary and language points in realistic, contextualized ways. Options built into activities allow for learner autonomy.
Communication activities are designed to stimulate freer, learner-centred interactions. Creative choices are built into exercises to allow for meaningful and personalized dialogues.
The extra pair work activities at the end of the book are open-ended creative exercises designed to incorporate wider scopes of vocabulary and language points. Options built into activities allow for a high level of learner autonomy, empowering learners to take charge of their learning.
Integrated pronunciation practice of new words prepares students for communicative activities in the unit. Words are carefully selected on basis of frequency of use and complexity of pronunciation.
Integrated pronunciation practice of new words prepares students for communicative activities in the unit. Words are carefully selected on basis of frequency of use and complexity of pronunciation.
Cultural Corner facilitates the development of crosscultural communication and understanding. Topics are relevant to learners’ lives and serve as springboards for cross-cultural discussions.
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“Our students have really enjoyed using Discover China …It is informative, interesting and has provided terrific insights into Chinese culture which fits very well with the new Australian Curriculum. Well done, Discover China! ”
—Gregory Hughes, Chinese Language Coordinator, Melbourne Grammar School, Australia; Secretary, Chinese Language Teachers’ Association of Victoria
“I highly recommend Discover China over all other textbooks I have used with my language students. The series is rich in culture awareness, language acquisition, and appeals to the 21st century learner.”
—Shaz Lawrence, Founder, Creative Chinese
“Discover China is a well-thought out course that caters for the needs of Western students. It looks very attractive, has practical topics related to real life experience in China, and from a didactic point of view, the contents are well-planned and complete. The variety of exercises and tasks make it very easy to use. I can really recommend this course…”
—Gwendolyn Tates, Chairperson Levende Talen Chinese section; Lecturer Chinese Language, The Hague University of Applied Science; Department Head Chinese Language and Culture, Rijnlands Lyceum Wassenaar
“As a teacher, my favourite parts of Discover China include the close-to-life conversations, clear learning structures and easy to follow exercises. The carefully chosen topics are highly connected to daily life, and much easier for students to learn and to use. The online support is abundant, and also very helpful for both teachers and students.”
—Bei Zhou, Chinese Instructor and Head Teacher, The Business Confucius Institute at the University of Leeds
“I find Discover China carefully designed, well structured and beautifully printed. Its integrated approach to language instruction, inductive grammar teaching and abundant resources are distinctive. I am particularly delighted to see that most practice activities are constructive and consciousness-raising tasks.”
—Lening Liu, Professor in Chinese Language and Program Director at Columbia University
“Discover China offers a series of meaningful topics, integrated task-based speaking activities and relevant exercises with direct links to the real world. Discover China minimises traditional teaching methodology, stimulates fun learning and empowers students to become effective learners. These unique features make it so different from other textbooks in the market.”
—Huang Dian, Senior Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Westminster and Chair of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society
“The textbook takes a practical approach and develops around the learners: what they might need to use the language for inside and outside the classroom. While the textbook uses close-to- life scenes and situations, which are stimulating and entertaining, it also illustrates the language in a structured way.”
—Dr. Song Lianyi, Principal Teaching Fellow in Chinese, China & Inner Asia Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
“Discover China replaces the rote memorization and drills adopted by standard Mandarin textbooks with a wide variety of enjoyable activities and interesting role-plays in the context of everyday life in modern China, making it possible for students to express themselves effectively as native speakers do.”
—Tang Chiu Kay, Professor, School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong

Discover China Level 1 Student's Book and Audio CD Pack
First Edition| ©2015
Ding Anqi; Chen Xin; Jing Lili
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Discover China Level 1 Student's Book and Audio CD Pack
First Edition| 2015
Ding Anqi; Chen Xin; Jing Lili
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Discover China Level 1 Student's Book and Audio CD Pack
First Edition| 2015
Ding Anqi; Chen Xin; Jing Lili
Authors

Ding Anqi
Ms. Ding Anqi is a doctoral candidate on teaching Chinese as a foreign language at Renmin University, Beijing. Shes holds an MA in the subject from Nankai University, Tianjian, having completed undergraduate studies of English Language and Literature at Shandong Normal University. Ding Anqi has taught Chinese language and on teaching methodology in both academic and corporate spheres since 1996, and is presently Deputy Dean of the School of Chinese Language and Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Chen Xin

Jing Lili

Discover China Level 1 Student's Book and Audio CD Pack
First Edition| 2015
Ding Anqi; Chen Xin; Jing Lili
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