Магистратура
2025/2026
Начальный курс китайского языка I
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Международный бизнес в странах Азиатско-Тихоокеанского региона)
Кто читает:
Департамент иностранных языков
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 2-4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Ангел Кристина Сергеевна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
9
Контактные часы:
184
Course Syllabus
Abstract
“Beginner Chinese Course I” is a two year course delivered in English for the first-year and second-year master students. The material is given sequentially according to the degree of increasing complexity. Depending on the performance of the group, the rate at which students master the material may vary. If the group learns the material faster, the teacher can give additional materials for mastering at home and in the classroom (materials from other teaching and reference books, adapted texts for home reading or texts from the Internet). If the group masters the material more slowly than envisaged in the programme, a delay in the presentation of the material is allowed in order to better study aspects that cause difficulties for students.
Learning Objectives
- Chinese Language: Elementary Course aims to provide students with a basic knowledge and competences of Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua) and focuses on the acquisition of practical communicative skills. It covers phonetics, hieroglyphics, basic grammar and essential vocabulary, allowing participants to communicate in Chinese on a limited range of daily topics. Participants will learn to recognize and write both simplified and traditional characters, develop the skills of comprehending and producing Chinese in speech and writing, use proper vocabulary and language structures. This is supplemented by guided independent learning supported by complementary material and regular feedback from the tutor.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate mastery of the normative phonetics of Chinese language (Putonghua).
- Read and write Chinese words using the Pinyin transcription system.
- Understand the fundamental rules of the Chinese script.
- Handwrite basic Chinese radicals.
- Handwrite Chinese characters in a correct stroke order.
- Recognize basic structural parts of both traditional and simplified characters components (as the radical or the phonetic parts).
- Make simple sentences with basic Chinese syntax.
- Speak simple sentences with correct grammar.
- Provide answers grammatically consistent with the questions.
- Conduct elementary communicative exchanges.
- Follow simple classroom instructions.
- Understand simple words, phrases, and short expressions aided by context and limited to learned vocabulary.
- Read and comprehend the elementary textbook materials in simplified characters within the studied vocabulary.
- Handwrite at an elementary level of proficiency.
- Type Chinese characters on the keyboard.
- Demonstrate a familiarity with various aspects of Chinese culture, literature, cinema and history.
Assessment Elements
- HomeworkAverage result of all home assignments includes phonetical and graphical exercises, translations of sentences; reading texts and answering questions/ making up situational dialogues; lexical and grammatical exercises.
- Work in classWritten and oral assignments based on individual or group linguistic assignments, prepared and unprepared oral speech, lexica-grammatical complexes of exercises, audio and video materials, essays (with or without home preparation) and based on course material; 10-16 works per course, presentations, prepared monologues and dialogues. The grade for "Work in class" can be the arithmetic mean of the grades received by the student in two classes. For example, if a student missed the first class for an unjustified reason, but received a grade of "10" in the second class, then the final grade for "work in class" will be (0+10)/2 = 5 points.
- Written testsWritten phonetical and graphical tests, based on various types of authentic tasks developed by HSE teachers on the basis of course materials, for which the student is given 1-2 academic hours, are performed directly on the lesson; 3-5 works per course.
- ExamThe written exam is conducted in the format of written test and consists of 40 questions divided into two sections: Listening (phonetic dictation) and Characters. The Listening section has 20 questions and is approximately 6 minutes long, while the Writing section has 20 questions and lasts about 40 minutes.
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 3rd module0.2 * Exam + 0.25 * Homework + 0.3 * Work in class + 0.25 * Written tests
- 2025/2026 4th module0.2 * Exam + 0.25 * Homework + 0.3 * Work in class + 0.25 * Written tests
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Developing Chinese : elementary comprehensive course (I) (+CD), , 2019
- Введение в китайский язык : Приложение к учебнику "Введение в китайский язык", Спешнев, Н. А., 2015
- Введение в китайский язык: Фонетика и разговорный язык (+CD), Спешнев, Н. А., 2008
- Введение в китайский язык. Фонетика и разговорный язык, Спешнев, Н. А., 2016
- Введение в китайскую иероглифику : Учебно-справочное издание, Сторожук, А. Г., 2017
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Contemporary Chinese for beginners.Dāngdài Zhōngwén. Textbook, Wu, Z., 2010
- Введение в китайский язык (Приложение к учебнику "Введение в китайский язык" ), Спешнев, Н.А., 2008