As a monograph on the systematic study of Chinese language skills teaching, Chinese as a Second Language Teaching (2nd Edition) sets up a theoretical framework for the teaching of Chinese as a second language skills, and comprehensively discusses the teaching contents and teaching methods of Chinese comprehensive, speaking, listening, reading and writing skills teaching. In addition, relevant contents are explained in accordance with Chinese Language Proficiency Scales for Speakers of Other Languages (English-Chinese), International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education, and Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education. Analyzing teaching difficulties and teaching strategies through a large number of teaching examples, this book can be perceived as a combination of theory and practice.

Chinese as a Second Language Teaching (2nd Edition) can not only be used as a teaching book for the core courses of Master of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, but also as a guidance book for the CTCSOL exam.

Zhai Yan is a professor in the Research Institute of International Chinese Language Education, Beijing Language and Culture University. In 1998, she won the second prize of the National Excellent Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language Award and the first prize of Beijing Higher Education Teaching Achievements in 2012. Her research mainly focuses on the methodology of teaching Chinese as a second language, language acquisition and testing. Professor Zhai has published many papers, including An Objective Study on the Subjective Criteria of Speaking Fluency, and a monograph, Spoken Chinese: From Teaching to Testing and has participated in the compilation of many Chinese teaching textbooks, among which Short-term Spoken Chinese Threshold (2nd Edition) has been selected as the National Planning Textbook in the 11th Five-Year Plan of General Higher Education of the Ministry of Education. Su Yingxia, professor of Beijing Language and Culture University, was a Visiting Professor of Tokyo