In order to further promote the integration of Chinese language proficiency and professional skills among learners from various countries and enhance their ability to communicate and interact in Chinese in specific industry scenarios and typical work tasks, meet the growing needs of Chinese learners for career planning and personal growth, realize the sharing of high-quality educational resources, and promote exchanges and mutual learning among diverse civilizations, the Center for Language Education and Cooperation under the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with China Nonferrous Metal Industry Talent Center, has organized experts from vocational education, international Chinese education, publishing, and related enterprises to jointly develop the“Access to Vocational Chinese”series of textbooks and supporting teaching resources.
In reference to the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education and the Chinese Proficiency Standards for Vocational Education , the series of textbooks titled“Access to Vocational Chinese”is divided into three levels: elementary, intermediate, and advanced. All levels follow the writing philosophy of“integrating language and skills” and“being easy to learn, teach, and use”. The textbooks are designed around typical work scenarios, work tasks, and high-frequency terms of relevant professions, with sections on texts, conversations, language points, and exercises, continuously improving learners’Chinese application skills and key technical abilities in the vocational and technical fields, assisting learners to quickly familiarize themselves with and adapt to the work environment. This series of textbooks is suitable for international employees engaged in relevant professions in Chinese companies, international students or trainees in China, and learners interested in Chinese language, culture, and vocational skills.
Municipal Engineering Construction (Elementary) is one of the textbooks in the“Access to Vocational Chinese”series. It is suitable for international employees engaged in municipal construction-related work in Chinese companies, including roadbuilders, pipeliners, and surveyors. Through studying this textbook, learners can achieve the goal of conducting simple work communication in Chinese, understanding the full process and skills of constructing urban subgrades and pavements and installing municipal pipelines, as well as comprehending Chinese job descriptions.
The compilation of the textbook was based on industry standards such as Code for Construction and Quality Acceptance of Road Works in City and Town and General Code for Engineering Survey . Experts from the municipal construction field were consulted, and surveys were conducted with overseas Chinese-funded enterprises to understand their language, skills, and overall quality requirements for employees. Real language materials from actual work scenarios and typical work tasks were reconstructed into texts and dialogues that meet the learners’level. The textbook consists of 31 lessons, each of which includes eight sections: review, warming up, new vocabulary, text, grammar, comprehensive exercises (visit sinolingua.com.cn to download the key to the exercises), extension, and summary. It is richly illustrated with pictures to present real work scenarios in a visually engaging manner. In addition, audio, video, and other resources have been developed to help learners acquire the ability to perform basic communication in Chinese within vocational contexts.
