The Voyages in Chinese Series is designed as a comprehensive program for secondary school students. Each level includes a Student’s Book, a Workbook and a Teacher’s Book.

The program also includes Word Cards and PPT Courseware to further increase the convenience of teaching and self-study.

The program is organized with a topic-oriented structure that takes the language as its core and cultural contents as its key elements. Thus the program includes both comprehensive language knowledge and enriched cultural content. Some key feathers of the program are:
--Aligns with ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and Idaho Content Standards for teaching foreign languages.
--Employs a communicative, functional and task-based language learning approach.

--Presents authentic target language with rich cultural materials, aimed at cultivating student’s cultural awareness and expanding their cultural visions.

--Topics are interesting and age appropriate, from student’s daily lives and include realistic scenarios, thus allowing students to have an engaging learning experience while effectively integrating vocabulary, grammar and Chinese culture together.

--Illustrations have been created by professional designers, tailored to the tastes of today’s teenagers.

--Clear learning objectives and grammar instruction for each lesson

Best Practices in Program Design:
--Learning style/structure:
1) Functional and communicative: Emphasizing on communication and current issues, consisting of daily topics that enable students to learn languages in an authentic and dynamic environment.
2) This series comprises a students’ book, a workbook, a teacher’s book, and additional materials such as teacher’s PPT courseware and flashcards.
3) Each lesson is structured with learning objectives, text, new words, and exercises for listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
4) Three lessons per unit, followed by a unit summary which reviews the language points, and also includes cultural tips for a more comprehensive understanding of Chinese language.

--Pedagogical practice:
1) Communicative language learning: Focusing on interaction and communication. Offering a combination of in-class individual, pair and group activities.
2) Thematic learning: Materials are grouped into various themes and students can learn and practices their language centered on each theme.

--Assessment: Exercises in the book assess student performance in listening, reading, speaking and writing. The workbook is a supplementary to the student's book. As an extension of classroom exercises, it can be used both in-class and outside of class time.

--Engagement: Topics covered relate to the real life experience of secondary school students. The content is dynamic and the exercises are diverse, practical and useful. Illustrated cultural introductions expand the cultural vision of students and create a more interesting learning environment. The teacher's book includes learning objectives, suggested teaching steps and main points, classroom activities and language and cultural tips which engage and motivate students' language learning.