CHIN2202 Intermediate Chinese Part 2

Emeritus Professor Diana Glenn

This topic is not offered.

Enrolments in this topic will occur via cross-institutional study at Charles Darwin University.
This topic is part of the Chinese major, and is for students with little to no experience in spoken or written Chinese. Students with a background knowledge of Chinese (including Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and other regional dialects) are not permitted to enrol in this topic.

2017

4.5

1 x 1-hour tutorial weekly
1 x 2-hour on-line tutorial weekly

CHIN2201 - Intermediate Chinese Part 1

Assumes students have achieved the level of language skills provided by CHIN2201

All students are strongly encouraged to attend the tutorial in order to improve their oral proficiency.

This is the second topic on written and spoken Mandarin Chinese for Intermediate students. It will involve using spoken Chinese to accomplish various purposes in normal daily life, as well as reading short passages in written Chinese.

The aims of this topic are to:

further expand students' ability to produce and understand a range of sentence patterns in standard Mandarin Chinese from simple to more complex levels of difficulty, some featuring conditional constructions and types of complements
develop students' capacity for oral interaction taking cultural norms into consideration
develop students reading capacity
build up spoken and written vocabulary to at least 1200 standard Mandarin Chinese words

As a result of this topic, students will be able to:

speak, read and write grammatically simple sentences and more common types of compound and complex sentence patterns, including conditional constructions and some types of complements, in standard Mandarin Chinese
use spoken standard Mandarin Chinese to accomplish common tasks in normal daily life in culturally appropriate ways
read and respond appropriately to short passages written in Chinese characters, such as extracts from short stories
utilise a spoken and written vocabulary of at least 1200 standard Mandarin Chinese words in conversation and in spoken and written exercises

Key dates and timetable

Timetable details for 2017 are no longer published.

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