* separate listening/speaking and reading/writing volumes
* detailed teacher activity and planning manuals
* communicative, task-based, interactive classroom activities
* proficiency-based orientation
* focuses on the learner
* includes both forms of the Chinese character
* presents real-life, graded tasks in various contexts
* students develop their own strategies to express meaning
* already adopted by many secondary schools and college level programs
listening and speaking development in Hanyu Pinyin; illustrated with exercises; insightful cultural notes