{"product_id":"chaoyue-yea-fen-chen-9780231145299","title":"Chaoyue: Advancing in Chinese: A Textbook for Intermediate \u0026 Preadvanced Students [With CD (Audio)]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChaoyue: Advancing in Chinese\u003c\/i\u003e covers the five Cs--communication, cultures, comparisons, connections, and communities--and follows three communicative modes in lesson design: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational. The authors arrange their lessons around four topics intrinsically interesting to students: the self, schooling, social customs, and the global village, fostering a full appreciation of Chinese culture. Each lesson contains warm-up activities, mini-dialogues, authentic readings, conversational relays, a cultural unit, examples of sentence patterns, and a vocabulary list. Two review lessons are geared specifically toward synthesizing and reinforcing the language and culture skills taught throughout the book, and footnote glossaries assist in reading comprehension. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten by experienced Chinese language instructors, \u003ci\u003eChaoyue\u003c\/i\u003e helps students reach the preadvanced proficiency level within two semesters, or approximately 150 to 180 hours of course time. The preadvanced stage is comparable to a fourth-semester college Chinese course, or 250 hours of instruction. Unlike other language texts, \u003ci\u003eChaoyue\u003c\/i\u003e is printed in both simplified and traditional Chinese characters, as well as the phonetic systems used in China (\u003ci\u003epinyin\u003c\/i\u003e) and Taiwan (\u003ci\u003ezhuyin fuhao\u003c\/i\u003e). It also includes a CD-ROM with additional assignments and review as well as an online teacher manual. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLesson sections include: \u003c\/b\u003e-Warm-up activities that articulate the lesson's theme and activate students' prior knowledge \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Short readings in the form of letters, e-mails, reports, dialogues, stories, and interviews \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Dialogue practice with key vocabulary and sentence patterns \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Interactive activities such as surveys, debates, and small group discussions \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Conversational relays that ask pairs to complete minidialogues \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Authentic readings in the form of advertisements, Web sites, maps, and signs, with multiple-choice review questions \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Common expressions that relate to the lesson theme\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yea-Fen Chen, Mei-Ju Hwang, Frances Yufen Lee Mehta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231145292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231145299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.70h x 8.50w x 1.10d","brand":"Yea-Fen Chen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047262777599,"sku":"9780231145299","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_79682c43-43b7-4c67-bf2c-3a176f706c60.jpg?v=1684989196","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chaoyue-yea-fen-chen-9780231145299","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}