Overview

The module is aimed at all first year students who have completed Chinese for Beginners 1. The module aims to develop the basic oral, aural, reading and written skills acquired in Semester 1 in order to bring students up to and beyond a level of proficiency equivalent to ‘A’ level. Students apply the grammatical principles learned in Semester 1 to write longer paragraphs and also focus on more complex grammatical structures. Aural communicative skills are developed through audio and video comprehension exercises. Students are also required to make individual presentations on more sophisticated topics.

Assessment Strategy

-threshold -40-49%: A limited knowledge of vocabulary and grammar and a limited ability to translate and paraphrase the prescribed range of texts. Basic oral and aural competence.

-good -50-59%: A good knowledge of vocabulary and grammar and a good ability to translate and paraphrase the prescribed range of texts. Good oral and aural competence.

-excellent -70+%: An excellent knowledge of vocabulary and grammar and an excellent ability to translate and paraphrase the prescribed range of texts. Excellent oral and aural competence.

Learning Outcomes

• be able to conduct simple dialogues on a selection of more sophisticated topics.

• be able to produce sentences and short paragraphs using a range of vocabulary and grammatical constructions, and translate more complex sentences and short texts from English into Chinese and vice versa;

• be able to read short Chinese texts;

• be familiar with features of Chinese sentences structures including complements, particles, aspects and comparison;

• have extended their knowledge of Chinese as learned in LZC1003 and increased their vocabulary, both in spoken and written forms;