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Editor’s Note

I. Editing Concepts
1. The language focuses on the practical, authentic, and functional aspects so students can
use what they’ve learned in everyday life.
2. Comprehensive language ability is the focus, with balanced development of the four basic
language techniques: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
3. The dialogues, sentences, traditional characters, grammatical structures and their quantity

4. The vocabulary words and grammar progress by spiral upward from low to high level and
are very common and usable.
5. Interactive in-class games and task-based activities are used so the language learning will
be natural.
6. The workbook uses a constructive design and advances by steps to consolidate what’s
been learned in an easy way.
7. Reading and writing sections chiefly use phonetic symbols (bopomofo) and traditional
characters. Hanyu Pinyin and simplified traditional characters are also taken into account.
8. The volumes are tied together by common themes and progress from the narrow to the
broad, suitable for topic-based school teaching.
II. Structure of the Teaching Materials
i. K2 includes A, B volume, each volume includes 6 lessons, total had 12 lessons, and the
major sections of each lesson are:
1. Learning core: dialogues, vocabulary words / phrases, traditional characters (two
subsections: recognizing / reading and practicing writing) and grammatical structures.
2. In-class practice: Includes recognition, reading, and writing practice of the lesson’s
traditional characters, as well as task-based activities, games, and pronunciation review.
3. Workbook: Every lesson includes four types of practice—listening, speaking, reading,

and writing— for take-home or after-class practice.
4. Vocabulary word / phrase index: All the vocabulary word / phrase of the book as appendix
in the last pages of the book.
ii. Learning contents of Volume K2:
1. 105 Vocabulary words / phrases, 54 Supplementary vocabulary words / phrases.
2. 164 Traditional Characters.
3. 25 Sentence patterns / Grammatical structures.
III. Other Resources
1. Taiwanese Culture Units (one is included in each Part A and Part B for a total of two units
in each volume).
2. Activity word cards (attached at the end of the textbook).
3. Please download the audio files (files of lesson texts, vocabulary words / phrases,
grammatical structures, etc. and workbook listening exercises) from the huayuworld
website at www.huayuworld.org/upload/epaper/106/index.html.