"Step into Practice: Chinese for Economics Series" serves as a bridge for international students to switch from basic Chinese learning to business and finance majors, and also a good medium for advanced students of Chinese and foreign practitioners to further improve their comprehensive Chinese application ability according to their actual work needs.
This series consists of 7 books: Chinese for Commerce: Comprehensive Course (1 & 2), Chinese for Finance: Comprehensive Course (1 & 2), Chinese for Commerce: Listening and Speaking, Chinese for Commerce: Writing and Chinese for Commerce: Culture, covering common topics in the fields of business and finance.
The textbook strives to make the top-level goal of "integrating knowledge, ability and quality" concrete and put into practice, and make the outline project, content and style design reflect the training requirements of multiple knowledge abilities and quality indicators. In terms of knowledge, this book emphasizes business Chinese and economic and trade expertise, while in terms of ability, emphasis is placed on business Chinese listening, speaking, reading and writing, comprehensive ability to use Chinese to deal with real business issues and cross-cultural communication ability. In addition, it also helps to cultivate teamwork spirit and international vision.
This textbook, Chinese for Commerce: Comprehensive Course I, belongs to the "Step into Practice: Chinese for Economics Series". The whole book takes the ability outline as the core, the topic outline as the content scope supplemented by language knowledge, professional knowledge, social knowledge and other multi-dimensional clues, and simulation tasks as practical opportunities for learners to practice and consolidate their ability. It consists of 8 units, 16 lessons. In terms of the ability acquired, this volume focuses on the ability to collect and analyze business information, which is subdivided into four categories of "acquisition - understanding - analysis - integration", and further details the ability items of each unit and the "micro" ability points of each lesson. In terms of the topics involved, it focuses on macroeconomics, mainly including economic aggregate, economic composition, stage of industrial development and industrial structure.
Chief Author: Zhai Yijiang
Chief Author of This Volume: An Na
Zhai Yijiang is an associate professor and Master candidates’ supervisor of the School of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and was the Chinese director of the Confucius Institute at Heidelberg University in Germany. His main research focuses on teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages and comparative Chinese characterology. He has published textbooks such as the A 21st Century Course of Chinese as a Foreign Language.
An Na is a teacher of the International Chinese Education Center, School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiaotong University, with a PhD in Literature. Her main research focuses on corpus linguistics, second language acquisition, and international Chinese language education. Her representative publications include A Corpus-Based Research on Discourse Markers and Chinese Second Language Teaching: From Methodology to Post-Methodology.