Bachelor
2022/2023
Foreign Language (Chinese)
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (International Bachelor's Programme in World Politics)
Area of studies:
International Relations
Delivered by:
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
When:
4 year, 1-3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
8
Contact hours:
224
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Through a wide range of learning activities such as daily dictation, oral and written tests, recalling of conversation, story-telling, dialogue construction, presentations, the course focuses students toward further improving their pronunciation and tones; learning new grammar patterns; and applying the grammar and vocabulary learned. Additionally, the course will integrate Chinese culture into language learning to enhance the understanding of cultural influence on the language.
Learning Objectives
- continue to acquire some commonly used idiomatic expressions
- continue to develop basic communication skills at “survival” level
- continue to master the standard sound system and acquire correct pronunciation and tones
- learn to describe or narrate one’s past experiences, current condition, and future plans; express affirmation and refusals, personal opinions, make suggestions, and so on
- continue to gain concrete knowledge of Chinese customs and manners, geography, shopping conventions, and major holidays in Chinese-speaking countries
- to use more complex grammatical constructions
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Can ask and answer simple questions; Introduce itself, make request, give advice, make suggestion, expressing agreement/disagreement and make an offer; Communicate on daily topics such as daily routines, description of surrounding things, ordering food, shopping, travelling, asking direction etc.
- Identify speaker’s purpose and tone; Identify the topic and main idea; Сan catch the main point in short, clear, simple messages and announcements. Can understand phrases and expressions related to areas of most immediate priority (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment) provided speech is clearly and slowly articulated.
- Skim for main idea; Scan for details; Can understand short, simple texts containing the highest frequency vocabulary, including a proportion of shared international vocabulary items; Can understand short, simple messages on postcards, short simple personal letters. Can get an idea of the content of simpler informational material and short simple descriptions, especially if there is visual support.
- students should be able to demonstrate: an improved vocabulary and pronunciation related to the topics; ability to write correctly new characters; ability to use grammatical constructions correctly.
- after studying this topic, students should be able to demonstrate: an improved vocabulary and pronunciation related to the topics; ability to write correctly new characters; ability to use grammatical constructions correctly.
- fter studying this topic, students should be able to demonstrate: an improved vocabulary and pronunciation related to the topics; ability to write correctly new characters; ability to use grammatical constructions correctly.
- After studying this topic, students should be able to demonstrate: an improved vocabulary and pronunciation related to the topics; ability to write correctly new characters; ability to use grammatical constructions correctly
Course Contents
- language features of the main Confucian monuments of the classical era
- Language features of the main legistic monuments
- Prices and terms of payment
Assessment Elements
- экзамен
- экзамен
- устный экзамен
- Устный экзамен
- Устный экзамен
- Экзамен устный
- Устный экзамен
- Homework
- Устный экзамен
- Экзамен устный
- Устный экзамен
- контрольная работа
Interim Assessment
- 2019/2020 2nd module0.3 * Homework + 0.1 * контрольная работа + 0.3 * Экзамен устный
- 2019/2020 4th module0.3 * Экзамен устный + 0.3 * Homework + 0.1 * контрольная работа
- 2020/2021 2nd module0.1 * контрольная работа + 0.3 * Homework + 0.3 * устный экзамен
- 2020/2021 4th module0.3 * Homework + 0.3 * Устный экзамен + 0.1 * контрольная работа
- 2021/2022 2nd module0.1 * контрольная работа + 0.15 * экзамен + 0.15 * Устный экзамен + 0.3 * Homework
- 2021/2022 4th module0.3 * Homework + 0.15 * Устный экзамен + 0.15 * экзамен + 0.1 * контрольная работа
- 2022/2023 2nd module0.3 * Homework + 0.3 * Устный экзамен + 0.1 * контрольная работа
- 2022/2023 3rd module0.3 * Устный экзамен + 0.6 * Homework + 0.1 * контрольная работа
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Shi, Y., Gong, L., & Chen, J. (2019). The Effect of Financing on Firm Innovation: Multiple Case Studies on Chinese Manufacturing Enterprises. Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, 55(4), 863–888. https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2018.1478284
- Разговорный китайский язык. Ч. 2: ., Гун Мин, ., 2015
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Китайский язык : экономика: учеб. пособие, Демина, Н. А., 2004
- Китайский язык для делового общения + CD-ROM : учебник для вузов, Дашевская, Г. Я., 2011