CHINESE 709

Chinese Pedagogical Grammar 1

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for CHINESE 709.

Description

Students will learn how to diagnose in a linguistically-informed manner the common pronunciation difficulties encountered by English-speaking learners of Mandarin Chinese and learn how to make use of this specialised knowledge to devise practical, linguistically-informed and appropriate methods for assisting students in understanding and correcting these errors. Students will learn basic concepts in articulatory phonetics and contrastive analysis and will become familiar with the relevant literature and available resources in this area.

Availability 2017

Not taught in 2017

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

CHINESE 709: 15 points

Prerequisites

Must have attained a proficiency level in Chinese of at least HSK level 5 or its equivalent