Acting Chinese: An Intermediate-Advanced Course in Discourse and Behavioral Culture 行为汉语

by Yanfang Tang, Kunshan Carolyn Lee, Li Xu

Acting Chinese is a year-long course that, together with the companion website, integrates language learning with the acquisition of cultural knowledge, and treats culture as an integral part of human behavior and communication.

Using modern day examples of Chinese discourse and behavioral culture, it trains students to perform in culturally appropriate fashion, whilst developing a systematic awareness and knowledge about Chinese philosophy, values and belief systems that will prepare them for further advanced study of Chinese language and culture. Each lesson contains simulated real-life communication scenarios that aim to provide a concrete opportunity to see how native speakers generally communicate or behave in social situations.

An essential guide for intermediate to advanced level second language learners, Acting Chinese provides a unique and modern approach to the acquisition of both cultural knowledge and language proficiency.

202 pages, ebook

Published August 24, 2020

Reviews

[Neo]

This textbook itself is unintuitive to use. Like I don't know where to start using it, and the contents aren't particularly helpful either... The chapters are just...there. I don't know if this is a formatting issue but honestly it can be extremely demotivating.