An Elementary Chinese Reader is designed for advanced beginners of the Chinese language, especially college-level students. It can also be used by students without a Chinese background, as a supplementary reader after they have studied Chinese for at least one year. This book can be used both inside and outside the classroom, either as a textbook for a regular course, or as a supplementary or self-study reader. When I began to teach “advanced Beginner” elementary Chinese at Columbia University in 1999, I found that this group of students is different from the very beginners of the Chinese language. They need a course designed especially for them to improve their reading and writing skills and at the same time to better their listening and speaking abilities. This also requires a different pedagogy and an appropriate textbook. However, for various reasons, textbooks for “advanced beginners” of Chinese are still very limited. Therefore, designing a practical textbook for “advanced beginners” of Chinese is a task in need.
To meet this need, I have written the textbook of An Elementary Chinese Reader, at Columbia University in New York. My aim in writing this textbook is to provide reading materials for advanced learners.
Hello, my name is Tina Nguyen Le. I'm a 46 year old self-employed from Ho Chi Minh City.