The Approach: Introductory Chinese focuses on fundamental sentence structures of colloquial Chinese according to their semantic functions. The "Listening-Speaking" book and the  "Reading-Writing" book contain 38 Lessons in 8 Units respectively, and may be used separately or complementarily.
    
The "Reading-Writing" book corresponds with the "Listening-Speaking" one at the same level and plays a complementary role. In general, the vocabulary and grammar of the "Listening-Speaking" book do not go beyond the "Reading-Writing" book, and there are notes on the newly appeared words and language points if any. In this way, learners may focus on reading and writing practice as well as the practice of writing Chinese characters. For the sake of convenience, there is a character list in this book. The specific teaching advice is as follows:
(1) It takes 90 - 100 minutes to study one Lesson.
(2) It is suggested to use this book together with the "Listening-Speaking" one. At the "warm-up" stage, the teacher may talk with students to refresh their memory of learned vocabulary and sentence structures.
(3) We try to avoid dull grammar and words explanation. First of the first, we intend to let students understand the meaning of the text. And then, gradually, guide students to write phrases related following the examples.
(4) Apart from reading and writing, learning new characters is also an important task in this course. The teacher should introduce students the basic components of characters and the order of strokes, and then teach them how to write based on such knowledge.
(5) The after-text exercises aim to improve students' reading and writing abilities from sentence level to paragraph level. The teacher may use them flexibly according to students' needs and the availability of class time.