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A beginner's level course, focusing on the four basic language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of the Chinese language.
This is a beginner level Chinese language course. The course starts with the fundamentals of the language, i.e. its sounds and tones, which will be taught with the assistance of Pinyin, a Latin alphabet based phonetic transcription for Putonghua (Modern Standard Chinese). From early in the course, students will also be taught to write Chinese characters. The course will introduce basic sentence patterns and a vocabulary of some 200 words in everyday use, as well as 150 Chinese characters. The emphasis in this course is on the functional development of four language skills, which are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course will lay a solid foundation for further studies in Chinese.Learn is used for course management.ExpectationsStudents in this course are expected to- Attend all classes. Failure to do so will not only result in your falling behind but also hold back the class.- Prepare for each lesson before coming to class, by going over the new words and text of each lesson.- Take an active role in class activities.- Complete all the course work required for assessment independently, without the help of other people (See the section Dishonest Practice and Breach of Instructions below). This includes the Workbook exercises to be submitted and marked.- Submit all the course work required for assessment on time- Devote no less than six hours each week to self study outside the formal contact hours- Check UC email and Learn regularly for course notices and updates.
Students will acquire skills in all four areas of the language (reading, writing, speaking and listening), which will become the foundation for developing strategies and skills needed to interact in Chinese. By the end of the course students should:- be able to understand 200 Chinese basic words, and actively use 150 words from these basic words- recognise 150 basic Chinese characters, and be able to write 100 characters from these characters - be able to actively apply basic Chinese sentence structures and expressions in simple everyday situations (e.g., greeting, expressing needs, talking about nationality, asking for permission, asking for direction, expressing gratitude, making suggestion, discussing about studies, talking about university and specialities/departments, describing family members)- have developed learner autonomy and reflective skills - have acquired skills and competencies transferrable to a variety of disciplines - enable and encourage community engagements (especially Chinese speaking communities)- have some intercultural awareness and sensitivity; and apply some global competency through communication in a second language.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
Globally aware
Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.
RP: This course is designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of the Chinese language.
CHIN101. Students who have learnt more than 150 Chinese characters or have a level of spoken Chinese equivalent to the level reached by the students at the very end of this course will not be admitted to this course.
This course is designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of the Chinese language.
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences Head of Department
New Practical Chinese Reader Textbook 1: ISBN 978-7-5619-2623-9New Practical Chinese Reader Workbook 1: ISBN 978-7-5619-2622-2Audio-visual materialsNew Practical Chinese Reader Textbook 1 CD (MP3 format, already attached to the textbook)New Practical Chinese Reader Workbook 1 CD (MP3 format, already attached to the workbook)There is a Learn (Moodle) component to this course.Recommended dictionariesA Chinese-English Dictionary, revised edition. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 1997ORConcise English-Chinese and Chinese-English Dictionary, 2nd edition. Hong Kong: Commercial and Oxford University Press. 2001Other material, which may be helpful, can be found in the Library Subject Guides: http://canterbury.libguides.com/
Library portalLEARN The Course Outline is available for enrolled students on LEARN.
Domestic fee $761.00
International fee $3,188.00
* 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.
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .