Keywords

General description

Intensive training in recognizing characters and listening comprehension. Linguistic ability in both English and Chinese are used as a basis for increasing vocabulary and enhancing reading and writing skills through short reading passages, stories, diaogues, etc.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of the course, students will
- possess an advanced vocabulary and skills for understanding speech
- be able to read most characters fluently without the pinyin system
- be able to write some characters

Contents

Conversation practice, exercises for identifying characters, a series of reading exercises (stories, dialogue, etc.), listening comprehension exercises, writing characters and various supplementary language skill exercises.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Tutorials	39 h	0 h
Independent work	42 h	0 h

Teaching language

Chinese, English

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
Evaluation by active participation and final examination.

Study materials

Xin Hanyu Jiaocheng (A New Perspective in teaching Chinese) Book I, Beijing University Press.

Further information

Not open to native speakers of Mandarin.

Belongs to following study modules