Developing Chinese (3^rd Edition) is a set of systematic Chinese language teaching materials for adults that embodies the teaching concept of “development” and adopts the model of “integrating comprehensive language ability cultivation with specialized language skills training”, which can be divides into three levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and six series (comprehensive, speaking, listening, reading, writing and elementary reading and writing), with a total of 28 volumes.

Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) Intermediate Listening Course (I) is a listening textbook in the Developing Chinese series. It is suitable for learners who have completed Developing Chinese Elementary Listening Course (II) or equivalent elementary Chinese textbooks and have reached the entry-level of intermediate Chinese. The book contains 28 lessons, with each lesson consisting of three parts: Pre-task, While-task, and Post-task. The Pre-task section features a “Free Talk” segment to fully warm up learners and activate their background knowledge. The While-task section guides learners to understand the text through exercises that progress from easy to difficult. The Post-task section deepens the content and focuses on language forms, including discussions on in-class topics or after-class surveys, as well as consolidation exercises for the language knowledge learned in the lesson.

Li Quan, Editor-in-Chief, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Chinese Studies and Cultural Exchange, Renmin University of China. Professor Li is also a member of the National Steering Committee for Postgraduate Education of International Chinese Language Education, vice president of the Beijing Language Association, executive director of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching, and editorial board member of various journals such as Chinese Teaching in the World and Applied Linguistics.

(1) The selected content is practical and engaging. The text closely connects with real-life scenarios, such as travel information and the use of WeChat, helping learners expose themselves to as many different life situations and language materials as possible.

(2) The content progresses step by step with interlocking links. Each lesson consists of three parts: Pre-task, While-task, and Post-task. From activating background knowledge to understanding the text, and then to consolidation exercises and practical application, the content deepens layer by layer, ensuring the quality and effectiveness of listening teaching.

(3) The difficulty of the texts is well-controlled. To increase the proportion of content that learners can understand, the difficulty is reasonably managed in terms of text length, complexity, and the number of new words.

(4) The exercises are strategy-oriented. Emphasis is placed on the scientific arrangement of exercises. In terms of question type selection, efforts are made to ensure practicality and effectiveness, focusing on training learners’ abilities to perceive and identify Chinese phonetics, segment speech flow, and conduct corresponding semantic association and generalization.

Intermediate starters who have learnt the elementary courses can use this book. 

The textbook consists of 28 lessons in total, and each lesson is suggested to finish in 2 class hours.