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This course, following CHIN152 and still focusing on the four basic language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, is a Chinese language course teaching how to conduct daily and social conversations, and to read and write texts in Chinese at an early intermediate level, with an adequate cultural understanding of China.
ExpectationsStudents in this course are expected to:• prepare for each new lesson by going over the new vocabulary and texts before coming to classes (see the teaching schedule for the timing of new lessons);• attend all the classes;• participate in oral and written exercises during class time, as each exercise is designed to help students learn and strengthen specific language structures and skills;• complete the workbook exercises to be submitted independently; • devote at least eight hours per week to individual study outside the formal contact hours.
As a student in this course, you will acquire skills in all four areas of the language (reading, writing, speaking and listening). By the end of the course, successful students should have acquired an early intermediate level of Chinese language proficiency, which will allow them to continue to study Chinese at the upper intermediate and advanced levels. They should have learned the basic sentence structures in standard Chinese and about 280 Chinese words/expressions in addition to the characters, words and expressions learnt already at 100 level Chinese courses. Within the topics learned in this course, successful students should be able to understand Chinese speech directed to them and make themselves understood using the sentence structures and vocabulary they have learned. They should be able to read very short and simple texts with the aid of a dictionary, and write very short letters and compositions. The successful student should have obtained the basic language skills with which they could survive in a natural Mandarin speaking environment by themselves.By learning a foreign language, students will develop more understanding of global conditions, will become competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts, and will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand and its relevance to their study of the foreign language. This will help the language students to critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply the knowledge and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
Biculturally competent and confident
Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.
Globally aware
Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.
CHIN152 or placement test. Students who have learnt more than 450 Chinese characters, orhave a level of spoken Chinese equivalent to the required achievement of students when finishing CHIN251.
CHIN201. Students who have learnt more than 450 Chinese characters, or have a level of spoken Chinese equivalent to the required achievement of students when finishing CHIN251.
This course is designed for students who have completed CHIN152 or equivalent.
Mengping Cheng
Yuehua Liu et al; Integrated Chinese Volume 2 Textbook (Simplified Chinese) ; 4th Edition; Cheng & Tsui,, 2017.
Yuehua Liu et al; Integrated Chinese Volume 2, Workbook (Simplified Chinese) ; 4th Edition; Cheng & Tsui, 2017.
Audio Recordings for Integrated Chinese (Volume 2), Fourth Edition. Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2017. Available at www.chengtsui.comRecommended:A Chinese-English Dictionary, revised edition. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 1997ORConcise English-Chinese and Chinese-English Dictionary, 2nd edition. Hong Kong: Commercial and Oxford University Press. 2001There is a Learn (Moodle) component to this courseOther material, which may be helpful, can be found in the Library Subject Guides:
Domestic fee $799.00
International fee $3,600.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .