Бакалавриат
2020/2021
Базовый курс вьетнамского языка
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Программа двух дипломов НИУ ВШЭ и Университета Кёнхи «Экономика и политика в Азии»)
Направление:
41.03.01. Зарубежное регионоведение
Кто читает:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 1-4 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
16
Контактные часы:
432
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course is designed to provide practical skills and knowledge on the vocabulary and grammar of the Vietnamese language to the students who have never previously learned Vietnamese. At the same time, the course provides students with the opportunities to develop a sufficient competency in Vietnamese and to use it in a variety of ways to develop their communication skills. Students are also expected to acquire basic speaking and listening comprehension skills, a considerable body of basic grammar, reading and writing skills within the topics covered in class.
Learning Objectives
- communicative competence – developing communicative skills through speaking, listening, reading and writing in communicative scenarios and topics chosen for the course
- language competence – learning new language units (orthographic, phonetic, lexical, grammar) related to communicative scenarios and topics of the course; learning about language phenomena in the foreign language, about various ways of expressing ideas using the native and foreign languages
- socio-cultural competence – introducing students to the culture, traditions, and realia of the country whose language they are learning; developing skills of presenting their country and its culture when communicating with foreigners
- cognitive competence – developing general and special academic skills; familiarizing students with available ways of autonomous learning of a foreign language and culture, ICT included
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Identify a speaker`s purpose and tone
- Identify the topic and main idea
- Make inference and predictions about spoke the discourse
- Understand real-life conversation
- Use vocabulary appropriately
- Use grammatical structure appropriately
- Introduce itself, make a request, give advice, make a suggestion, express agreement/disagreement and make an offer
- Communicate on daily topics such as daily routines, description of surrounding things, ordering food, shopping, traveling, asking directions, etc.
- Demonstrate and produce some features of spoken Vietnamese: sentence stress, intonation on sentence and question
- Use grammatical structure accurately
- Compose both simple and complex sentences and texts
- Write well-developed and logical essays that utilized course readings and topics
- Reading: Skim for the main idea
- Reading: Scan for details
- Summarize and paraphrase information in the text
- Deduce meaning from the context
Course Contents
- Vietnamese Alphabet & PronunciationVietnamese Alphabet & Pronunciation. Vietnamese consonants and vowel pronunciation/ Number of the letter, reading rules. Basic greetings
- GreetingsVocabulary - Greetings, countries name, professions, major; objects, room facilities. Speaking skills - Introducing yourself (name, nationality, profession. college major); expressing pleasure at meeting someone; - Asking someone`s nationality, college major; asking questions “What is it?”; - Asking about someone’s major, introducing your major; - Telling what you have or have not. Writing and reading skills - Reading and writing self-introduction.
- DormitoryVocabulary - Family - Vietnamese numerals Speaking skills - Describing your family, asking questions about someone’s family, their occupation - Telling your age, asking someone’s age; - Asking question “Who is it?”; Writing and reading skills - Describing of someone’s family;
- FamilyVocabulary - Family - numerals Speaking skills - Describing your family, asking questions about someone’s family, their occupation - Telling your age, asking someone’s age; - Asking question “Who is it?”; Writing and reading skills - Describing of someone’s family;
- NeighborhoodSpeaking skills - Asking about dates of national holidays, date of birthday, etc.
- Daily routineVocabulary - Daily routines - Plans for the weekend - Week days - Frequency adverbs Speaking skills - Talking about daily activities - Asking people how they spend the weekend, about their daily routines - Telling and asking about schedule Writing and reading - Reading and write about schedule and daily routines
- To the collegeVocabulary - Types of colleges in Russia and Vietnam, college life (holidays, classes schedule, etc.).
- College lifeTelling about past activities - Asking and telling about college life Writing and reading skills - Writing and reading about your college
- Visiting friend’s houseVocabulary - Daily routines - Plans for the weekend - Week days - Frequency adverbs Speaking skills - Talking about daily activities - Asking people how they spend the weekend, about their daily routines - Telling and asking about schedule Writing and reading - Reading and write about schedule and daily routines
- RestaurantVocabulary - Names of dishes - Taste - Phrasal expressions with dishes names Speaking - Describing favorite food, it’s taste - Making an order in restaurant / café - Talking about cuisine preferences - Telling about dreams Writing and reading skills - Reading and writing about dreams
- Hobbylearn how to describe and respond to questions about their hobby and future plans; - learn how to talk about jobs; including the plans for future work.
- ClubVocabulary - Clothes - Colors - Physical appearance, character-related lexis Speaking - Describe one's preferences in clothes - Describe one's appearance and character - Ask about someone's appearance and character Writing Reading skills - Reading and writing about someone's appearance and character
- Appointmentlearn how to express time: the time, years, month and dates. Basic vocabulary—means of transportation; directions; taxi language; -Sentence patterns—asking ways; communicating with taxi drivers (drive slowly, drive fast, turn left/right, stop, etc.)
- At the cafeIn this topic, students will: -learn how to communicate with a shop keeper in Vietnamese to purchase an item; - learn how to count different items, using appropriate 'measure words' and how to bargain the price down when shopping in a Vietnamese market.
- Banklearn bargaining skills to negotiate the price of an item at a Vietnamese market; - understand that the cost of certain products is different in Vietnam and Russia.
- RevisionReview of the course material (vocabulary, grammar)
Interim Assessment
- Interim assessment (2 module)0.4 * Final Exams + 0.05 * Homework + 0.05 * In-Class Participation + 0.2 * Mid-term + 0.1 * Quiz + 0.2 * Test
- Interim assessment (4 module)0.4 * Final Exams + 0.05 * Homework + 0.05 * In-Class Participation + 0.2 * Mid-term + 0.1 * Quiz + 0.2 * Test
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Trà̂n, H. B. (2016). Easy Vietnamese : Learn to Speak Vietnamese Quickly! (Free Companion Online Audio). Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1569011
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Phan Van Giuong. (2014). Tuttle Mini Vietnamese Dictionary : Vietnamese-English/English-Vietnamese Dictionary. [N.p.]: Tuttle Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1567979
- Thien Sao Bui. (2016). PRONUNCIATION OF CONSONANTS /ð/ AND /θ/ BY ADULT VIETNAMESE EFL LEARNERS. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, (1), 125. https://doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v6i1.2744