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New Practical Chinese Reader 1s a series o Chinese textbooks compiled at the beginning of the new millennium for the purpose of teaching Chinese to native English speakers or those who use English as their principal second language. It aims to develop the learner s communicative ability in Chinese by leaming language structures, functions, and related cultural knowledge as well as by training their listening. speaking, reading, and writing skills. The series consists of seventy lessons in six volumes. The first four volumes, consisting of fifty lessons, are for beginners and pre-intermediate level learners. The last two contain twenty lessons for learners at an intermediate level. This set of textbooks is designed for overseas students who either take Chinese as an elective or significant in the language for a period of three years, studying about one lesson per week or one volume a semester. It can also be used by autonomous learners. Each book has a workbook, an instructor's manual, audiotapes, and CD-ROMs.

Features of New Practical Chinese Reader 

1. New Practical Chinese Reader does not follow the linear structure adopted by earlier Chinese teaching materials, instead adopting a cyclical arrangement with constant review of language structure and function together with important cultural information. The teaching of language structure passes through four cycles in the six volumes. In the first six lessons of Volume One, the focus of which is learning pronunciation, students are exposed to various basic sentence patterns by engaging in simple dialogues, although grammar is not discussed systematically at this stage. The second cycle is found in the twenty lessons that comprise Volume Two and the last eight lessons of Volume One. In this cycle, students learn and practice fundamental sentence patterns. As a result, by the end of the first year of study, they should have an elementary command of the basic Chinese language structure. Volumes Three and Four contain the twenty-four lessons of the third cycle, which further consolidate, expand and deepen students understanding of lexical items and sentence patterns. The fourth cycle is found in the twenty lessons of the last two volumes. Besides introducing more vocabulary items and grammatical points, these lessons concentrate on the teaching of complex sentences and paragraphs not emphasized in earlier Chinese teaching materials. These four large cycles contain smaller ones that interact closely with the unit reviews, not only increasing the student's command of linguistic structures and functions but also (and more importantly ) giving them a sense of accomplishment in communicative abilities at each stage of the leaming process.
2. New Practical Chinese Reader breaks with the emphasis on the structure at the expense of Function characteristic of earlier teaching maternals. Even in its introduction to phonetics, this new senes gives prominence to function, training the students in the most needed functional items, such as greetings and introductions, at the same time as it teaches phonetics. The first 1our volume focuses on the teaching of basic functions and topics of conversation, training the student's abilities to use language structures for communication. The last two volumes cultivate students' ability to comprehend and communicate at a higher level, especially in paragraphs. Functional items are included throughout all six volumes in order to constantly improve the learner's listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Some pictures and culturally, authentic materials such as selections from timetables, menus, advertisements, announcements, newspapers, and classical literary pieces are also used.
3. Unlike the vast majority of earlier textbooks, New Practical Chinese Reader emphasizes the systematic study of characters. In view of the difficulties encountered by students lacking a background in Chinese characters, the first two volumes stress the fundamental rules of learning the Chinese script, studying easy tasks such as basic strokes, character components, and single-component characters 1rst before moving on to difficult ones. The first six lessons of Volume One divorce the study of characters from the converted text. The teaching o characters starts with the introduction of sixty common, easily learned characters frequently used as components of other characters, along with some character components. The goal of this approach is to allow students to leam multi-component characters by first mastering their components.
4. Transcending the limits of campus life, Neo Practical Chinese Reader distinguishes itself even at the beginning stage From most previous Chinese textbooks by including a broader range of interesting materials. The first four volumes develop a series of attractive stories, narrating the lives of the three international students mentioned above, including their friendships, love stories, and teacher-student relationships with the Chinese student's Song Hua, Wang Xiaoyun, the journalist Lu Yuping, the tour guide Xiao Yanzi, as well as several Chinese language teachers. Volumes One and Two interweave campus life with everyday experiences, introducing cultural norms and customs closely associated with speaking and comprehension. The third and fourth volumes concentrate on topics of interest to students, illustrating cultural differences between China and the West. The last two volumes introduce various aspects of Chinese society, highlighting traditional and contemporary cultural life.
5. New Practical Chinese Reader abandons the mechanical, monotonous, and inflexible formulae of earlier teaching materials and can be adapted to the needs of students beginning at different levels. It increases the amount of vocabulary and exercises while adopting a module structure that balances the relationship between the core material and supplementary contents. By guaranteeing the teaching of core material, it can increase the number of supplementary contents so that students can learn according to their individual needs, and teachers can use the textbook to suit the differing levels of their students.

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