CHINESE 201 - Intermediate Modern Chinese 2

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Course staff

Coordinator	Teaching staff
Dr Robert Sanders Room 435, Arts 2 Extension 84601 Office hours: Mon 12-2, or by appointment	Ms Gao Xiaoping Ms Hannah Li

Welcome to CHINESE 201

This course is a continuation of CHINESE 200 and is also designed to develop the communicative use of the language in the four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. It expands your grasp of grammar and vocabulary through exposure to various topics of interest in contemporary Chinese society.

For this course you are expected to prepare for each lesson and to take an active part in conversation and discussion in class, as much of the focus of classroom instruction will be on developing the skills of circumlocution (the ability to talk about something that you do not know how to say directly) and paraphrasing (being able to say the same thing in different words).

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Class participation grade

10% of the internal assessment will be based on ‘class participation’. Half of this 10% will be based on your daily attendance, and half will be based on each teacher’s evaluation of your daily performance over the course of the entire semester. Therefore it is in your best interest to attend class regularly and be prepared to be an active participant.

Audio tapes

Anyone wishing to listen to audio tapes of texts can do so at the language lab (Arts 1 Building 206 Room 708). Please note that the ‘Text’ tape corresponds to the texts covered in class, while the ‘Listening Comprehension’ tape provides supplementary listening practice.

Texts and vocabulary

The textbook you are using contains a large number of vocabulary items and sentence patterns. This information will help you to understand the texts, and as such represent material you will only be responsible for knowing passively. THE ONLY VOCABULARY ITEMS AND SENTENCE PATTERNS THAT YOU ARE EXPECTED TO LEARN ACTIVELY WILL BE CONTAINED IN THE MATERIAL HANDED OUT TO YOU EACH TUESDAY DURING LECTURE. Likewise, the only texts you are responsible for knowing from the textbook are those actually parts gone over in class.

Textbook

Jin Honggang et al. China Scene: An Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course. Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2000.

Recommended dictionaries for the course

• A Chinese-English Dictionary (also appears under the title Times Chinese-English Dictionary), Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 1995.
• ABC Chinese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press (any edition).
• Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary, Oxford University Press (China) any edition.

Class etiquette

• Don’t talk in class (unless it is in Chinese!!!).
• Turn off cell phones.
• If you are late arriving for tutorials please apologise to the teacher.
• If you need to leave early for class please clarify this with the teacher before the class starts.
• Attend the stream allocated to you on nDeva. Tutors have been instructed to take a class roll and to require those in the wrong class to leave.
• Handouts are ONLY distributed during classes.
• Failure to regularly attend all of your lectures and tutorials will adversely affect your coursework assessment.