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This course follows on from CHIN101/CHIN105 and offers further grounding in the grammar and vocabulary of Modern Standard Chinese and development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. This course is not designed for students who are literate in Chinese and/or fluent speakers of Mandarin. Such students may not enrol in this course without the permission of the Programme Director, which will be granted only if the course is appropriate to the level of competence of the student. Direct entry candidates must reach a level in the relevant placement test which is judged satisfactory by the Programme Director.
This course is the continuation of CHIN101/105. It builds on the Chinese language skills that students have already acquired in CHIN 101 or CHIN 105. It aims to bring students’ Chinese language proficiency to an intermediate level. The course will introduce more complex sentence patterns and about 400 new Chinese characters.The emphasis in this course will be on further developing students’ overall Chinese language proficiency, with the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Chinese. Teaching in the course will combine grammar instruction and drills with communication-oriented classroom interaction. There are four contact hours per week in the classroom. The assessment in the course includes regular workbook exercises, Chinese character tests, short classroom presentations, mini written tests, listening tests, oral tests, and written term tests. Simplified characters will be taught and used for the course assessment.
By the end of the course, successful students should have acquired an intermediate level of Chinese language proficiency which will allow them to continue to study Chinese at the upper intermediate and advanced levels. They should have learned the basic sentence structures in standard Chinese and approx. 1000 most frequently used Chinese characters. Within the topics learned in this course, the successful student should be able to understand Chinese speech directed to them and make themselves understood using the sentence structures and vocabulary they have learned. They should be able to read simple texts with the aid of a dictionary, and write short letters and compositions. The successful student should have obtained the basic language skills with which they could survive by themselves in a natural Mandarin speaking environment.By learning a foreign language students will develop more understanding of global conditions and will become competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts. This will help the language students to develop knowledge and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
CHIN101 or CHIN105
Xiaoming Wu
Dong Wei
Beijing Language and Culture University; New Practical Chinese Reader Textbook 2 ; 2nd edition; Beijing Languages University Press, 2012.
Beijing Language and Culture University; New Practical Chinese Reader Textbook 3 ; 2nd edition; Beijing Languages University Press, 2012.
Beijing Language and Culture University; New Practical Chinese Reader Workbook 2 ; 2nd edition; Beijing Languages University Press, 2012.
Beijing Language and Culture University; New Practical Chinese Reader Workbook 3 ; 2nd edition; Beijing Languages University Press, 2012.
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Domestic fee $2,195.00
International fee $8,925.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
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