The Use of Extensive and Intensive
Xie Qian (谢芊)
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a method to enhance students overall Chinese language proficiency in cultural
context.
This paper is going to
talk about the use of reading and comprehension materials in addition to
textbook materials. Normally, textbooks provide dialogues and narration of the
dialogues as texts. Despite the provided exercises and drills, the variety of
repetition is limited. Just like games and activities are added by teachers,
reading materials can also be added to teaching process because despite
speaking and listening, students should also develop their ability in
recognizing Chinese characters in different context, understand Chinese
language in different forms and self-learning. The daily based schedule of
secondary schools provides the advantage to do intensive work in and outside class.
This paper is going to introduce the real teaching experience of using
extensive and intensive reading materials for students from lower to advanced
levels. Instead of picking up anything available, the materials are selected
and tailored based to meet specific
teaching goals based textbook content, culture content, students’ ability, time
management and etc. With careful
and considerable planning, the use of extensive and intensive reading should
provide challenge and variety to existing textbooks to enhance the overall
performance.