English Title: New Concept Chinese - Textbook 1
Chinese Title: 新概念汉语·课本1
ISBN-10: 7-5619-3256-1, 7561932561
ISBN-13: 978-7-5619-3256-8, 9787561932568
Binding: softcover
Pages: 94
Shipping Weight: 350g
Size: 210mm x 295mm
Language: simplified Chinese, pinyin, English
Publisher: Beijing Language and Culture University Press (北京语言文化大学出版社)
New Concept Chinese - Textbook 1 - book with online audio.
New Concept Chinese, a series of Chinese textbooks for adults, is suitable for both self-teaching and classroom teaching. Observing the principle of “making Chinese easier to learn”, this series presents practical, concise and interesting teaching materials and employs easy, flexible and effective teaching methods so that students and teachers could learn and teach Chinese in a convenient and effective way.
The whole series includes Textbooks, Workbooks, Chinese Character Workbooks and Teacher’s Books.
This is Textbook 1 in the series, targeted at adults who have some preliminary Chinese knowledge. It teaches more than 400 words frequently used in verbal communication, over 300 Chinese characters and over 40 common sentence patterns as well as the topics foreigners are most likely to encounter in their study, life and work, such as "Professions", "Hobbies", "Food" and "Means of Transport". Upon finishing the first volume, students can achieve a Chinese proficiency of New HSK Level 2.
The design of New Concept Chinese follows three principles, namely “practical”, “easy” and “scientific”.
1. Practical
(1) Common situations: The situations selected are common in everyday life, such as ordering food, shopping, asking the way and making an invitation.
(2) Frequently used expressions: The expressions selected are frequently used in everyday life, such as those used to make an introduction, a phone call or an apology, to thank someone and to talk about the weather.
(3) Communicative activities: There is a communicative activity in the review lesson in each unit to train the students’ ability to put into practice what they have learned.
2. Easy
(1) Interesting content: The texts, being fun and humorous, displays the charm of Chinese language, characters and culture step by step.
(2) Short texts: The texts are short ones, each of which can be finished within one hour, making students feel a continuing sense of achievement constantly.
(3) Humorous cartoons: Each text is illustrated by a series of cartoons, making it much more fun to learn Chinese.
3. Scientific
(1) Well-arranged layout: The new words, grammar points and Chinese characters are arranged in a scientific and reasonable way based on the regularity in learning Chinese.
(2) Step-by-step progression: Functional topics are presented progress from “greeting” to “shopping” and then to “seeing a doctor”, and Chinese characters from single-element ones to compound ones.
Repeated practice: There are altogether 20 units, each including a main lesson and a review one. The latter is a review of the key sentence patterns and words in the former, which will reappear and be reinforced repeatedly in later units too.
Mr. Cui Yonghua is a researcher in Beijing Language and Culture University. He has been engaged in the field of Chinese teaching and research since 1981. His research focuses on Chinese grammar, Chinese language teaching and Chinese information processing, and his publications include Classroom Techniques for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Teaching and Research of Chinese as a Foreign Language (a collection of academic papers) and some textbooks coauthored with others, such as Standard Chinese Course, Learning Chinese and Learn Chinese through Listening, Speaking and Watching. Mr. Cui has chaired and participate in many research projects, such as Radical Standards of GB13000.1Character Set for the Purpose of Information Processing, and has written a number of academic papers, the representative ones being “Syntactic and Semantic Issues Related to Commendatory and Derogatory Adjectives”, “An Attempt in Analyzing the Sentence Pattern ‘连……也……’” and “About the Methodology of TCFL as a Discipline”, etc.
《新概念汉语》，借鉴了蜚声世界、有着广泛影响的英语教材《新概念英语》的编写理念，同时从汉语和汉语教学的特点出发，在总结长期教学实践经验的基础上，汲取了新世纪第二语言教学理论和教材理论研究的新成果。在继承听说法优势的基础上，有效结合交际法、任务法、以学生为中心等新的方法和理念，克服了单纯使用听说法教学的弊端。
本教材以“学习汉语基本结构，培养综合运用语言的能力”为目标，对学生进行“听说领先，听说读写技能综合训练”，教材设计充分体现以学生为中心、在互动中学习和启发式教学的模式。
本教材体现了“实用、轻松、科学”三大原则：1.实用：
（1）常见的场景：选取日常生活中常见的场景，如点餐、购物、问路、邀请等。
（2）常用的话语：选取日常生活中常见的话语，如介绍、打电话、道歉、感谢、谈论天气等。
（3）交际性活动：在每单元复课文中，设计一个交际性活动，锻炼学生学以致用的能力。
2.轻松
（1）有趣的内容：课文内容风趣幽默，层层展现汉语、汉字和文化的魅力。
（2）短小的课文：课文内容短小精悍，一小时可学完一篇课文，让学生不断获得成就感。
（3）幽默的漫画：多格漫画演绎风趣的课文，图文并茂让汉语学习更加愉快。
3.科学
（1）合理的布局：遵照汉语学习规律，科学合理地安排词汇、语言点和汉字。
（2）渐进的设计：话题功能循序渐进，从“打招呼”到“购物”再到“看病”，汉字习得由浅入深，从独体字到合体字，从简单汉字到复杂汉字。
（3）循环的复练：共20个单元，每单元包括一篇主课文和一篇复课文，复课文是对主课文重点句型、词汇的复练，前后单元课文之间又会不断复现和复练重点句型和词汇。
内容简介
《新概念汉语》是一套供成人使用的汉语教材，可供自学者使用，也可在课堂教学中使用。本教材践行“让汉语容易学”的宗旨，选择实用、简要、有趣的教学内容，设计简便、灵活、有效的学习和教授方法，为汉语学习者和教师提供一条方便有效的学习途径。
本书是第1册课本，供稍有汉语基础的成人汉语学习者使用。本册教材教授400多个汉语交际常用词、300多个汉字、40多个语法项目，以及外国人使用汉语学习、生活、工作时最常见的话题，如“职业”“爱好”“食品”“交通工具”等。学完第一册可达到新HSK 2级水平。
作者简介崔永华，北京语言大学研究员。1981年起从事汉语教学和教学研究。研究领域为汉语语法、汉语教学、中文信息处理。编著有《对外汉语教学课堂教学技巧》（主编）、《对外汉语教学的教学研究》（论文集）；合作编写《标准汉语教程》、《学汉语》、《听、说、看中国语》等教材。参与《信息处理用GB13000.1字符集汉字部件规范》（项目主持人）等研究项目；代表论文有：《与褒贬义形容词相关的句法和语义问题》、《"连…也…."句式试析》、《关于对外汉语教学学科的方法论问题》等。
