Master
2023/2024
Beginner Chinese Course I
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (International Business in the Asia-Pacific Region)
Area of studies:
Management
Delivered by:
Department of Foreign Languages
When:
1 year, 2-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
International Business in the Asia-Pacific Region
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
9
Contact hours:
180
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 handwriting of Chinese radicals, exercises on radicals and characters, control reading of syllables/ words/ sentences/ tongue twisters/ texts; lexical and grammatical exercises, translations of sentences; reading texts and answering questions/ making up situational dialogues; lexical and grammatical exercises.
- TestsAverage result of all modular tests and dictations of syllables, radicals and characters; lexical and grammatical tasks and questions.
- ExamStudents should read aloud Pinyin syllables; then listen a recording and write down the syllables they’ve heard. The written part consists of the test on the Chinese radicals. The students must write down Chinese radicals, their pronunciation and meaning, numer of strokes, stroke order, variants of the radicals; then discriminate and name radicals in the character.
- Exam 4th moduleIn the 4th module the written part consists of three tasks: translation from and into Chinese, the task to find a grammatical or lexical mistake in the sentence. The oral part includes reading aloud and answering questions according to the text. The students should attend the exam according to the schedule sent by the teacher. Students take the written part first. The oral part should be taken after the oral part in synchronous mode. The retake procedure is similar to the exam procedure and involves the use of more complicated tasks
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 3rd module• 2023/2024 2nd module 0.16 * Homework + 0.24 * Tests + 0.6 * Exam 2nd • 2023/2024 3rd module 0.4 * Homework + 0.6 * Tests • 2023/2024 4th module 0.16 * Homework + 0.24 * Tests + 0.6 * Exam 4th
- 2023/2024 4th module• 2023/2024 2nd module 0.16 * Homework + 0.24 * Tests + 0.6 * Exam 2nd • 2023/2024 3rd module 0.4 * Homework + 0.6 * Tests • 2023/2024 4th module 0.16 * Homework + 0.24 * Tests + 0.6 * Exam 4th
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