Overview
Chinese Intermediate 2 completes an overview of the important sentence structures of modern standard Chinese. Equal emphasis is placed on the five skills of reading, writing, listening, speaking and translation. Speaking classes cover practical, everyday situations, to develop interactive competence at a basic level in a range of situations likely … For more content click the Read More button below.
Offerings
S2-01-CLAYTON-ON-CAMPUS
SSA-02-OTHER-OS-ON-BLK
Requisites
Prerequisite
Rules
Enrolment Rule
Contacts
Chief Examiner(s)
Dr Kevin Carrico
Unit Coordinator(s)
Dr Kevin Carrico
Notes
- If this is your language entry point, this unit requires a language entry level test.
- Students undertaking these units in Clayton must complete listed unit pre-requisites. Students applying for the Chinese intensive language program (an international study tour) must complete unit pre-requisites and in addition gain approval through this process.
- This unit is taught either in intensive mode or across standard teaching periods. For intensive mode teaching dates, please refer to the non-standard dates website for the census date and information regarding financial penalties.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:
1.
Read and write around an additional 200 Chinese characters (900) total.
2.
Critically reflect on the basic syntax system of Modern Standard Chinese and on the similarities and differences between it and English.
3.
Employ a grammatical framework to analyse and describe the vernacular Chinese under study facilitating progression to later study of formal written Chinese (in Chinese Online Media and Advanced Chinese).
4.
Orally communicate quantitatively and qualitatively using appropriate levels of formality in a range of everyday, practical situations.
5.
Read simple modern vernacular texts.
6.
Demonstrate language proficiency equivalent to Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) level A2.
Teaching approach
Active learning
Assessment summary
Within semester assessment: 100%
Assessment
1 - Language exercise/s
2 - Quiz/Quizzes
3 - In-class test
4 - Oral test/assessment
5 - In-class test
Scheduled and non-scheduled teaching activities
Lectures
Tutorials
Workload requirements
Workload
Learning resources
Required resources
Availability in areas of study
Chinese studies