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CHINESE 200: Intermediate Modern Chinese 1

2019 Semester 1

 

 

Points value: 15 points

Prerequisites: CHINESE 101 or approval of Academic Head or nominee

Restrictions: May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed 

Course convenor: Dr Karen Huang (k.huang@auckland.ac.nz)

Teaching team: 

Issac Iu
Junxian Wang

Find out more about the office hours and the contact details of Teaching staff. 

Description:

This course is designed for students who have passed CHINESE 101, or students who have previously studied modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin, Putonghua, Guoyu, Hanyu, Huayu) with a similar level of proficiency.

Students who enrol in this course should typically:

  • Know how to give directions, talk about events in sequences, and describe people, clothing and location
  • Know approximately 700 vocabulary items
  • Be able to write about 400 characters

If you are not sure whether this is the right course for you or how to enrol, please check here.

This course trains students in all four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. It aims to provide Chinese learners with a solid foundation in grammar, vocabulary, and conversational skills. This course continues to use the two textbooks and covers Chapter 16-20, and additional readers will be provided. By the end of the course, students are expected to know about 1000 vocabulary items and to attain the Intermediate Low level on the ACTFL proficiency scale (approximates to the CEFR language level A2.1).

Learning Outcomes:

Speaking:

  • To be more comfortable with Chinese pronunciation and the tones
  • Command of all major sentence patterns
  • To converse in short paragraphs
  • Begin to explain, compare, describe, narrate, present etc.
  • To perform tasks and solve problems in everyday linguistic situations

Listening:

  • To understand all major sentence patterns;
  • To understand sentence-length utterances that consist of recombinations of learned elements in a limited number of content areas, such as personal background and needs, social conventions, and routine tasks, including receiving simple instructions and directions.
  • To exhibits a basic ability to extrapolate based on function and context.

Reading:

  • To understand all major sentence patterns;
  • Consistent and full comprehension of textbook materials on familiar topics;
  • To use the Chinese dictionary
  • Can understand main ideas from simple connected texts dealing with personal background and daily needs. 
  • To exhibit basic proficiency in employing strategies, such as recognizing all major radicals, to extrapolate based on function and context the meanings of texts with a reasonable number of unfamiliar characters.

Writing:

  • To write effectively and clearly on various immediate topics with the learned elements and sentence patterns
  • Can accurately and appropriately convey basic ideas and intentions about personal background and daily needs through written characters.
  • Can use pinyin to input written communications for electronic devices, such as computers and/or cell phones.

 

Class contact hours: One lecture and four tutorials a week

Workload:

The University of Auckland expects students to spend 10 hours per week on a 15-point course. You should manage your academic workload and other commitments accordingly. Aside from 5 contact hours per week, you are expected to spend about 5 hours a week to study outside the classroom.

Learning Chinese

Student Responsibilities

Textbooks: (Available from the Ubiq, Kate Edger Information Commons, 2 Alfred Street, City Campus.)

Fundamental Spoken Chinese  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.基石口语  (FSC) (The sound files can be download here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.)

Fundamental Written Chinese (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. 基石读写  (FWC) (The sound files can be download here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.)

Recommended Resources

Timetables:

Please find the locations of your stream on Student Service Online for the most up-to-date information. Alternatively, you can use the following link to search for Chinese 200, Semester 1, 2019.

 

Well-being always comes first

We all go through tough times during the semester, or see our friends struggling. There is lots of help out there - for more information, look at this Canvas page, which has links to various support services in the University and the wider community.

 

 

 

 

 

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