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Higher Education
Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development
School of Communication, Culture and Languages
Campus Footscray Park.
Prerequisite(s) ACZ1002 Chinese 1B or equivalent.
Content This unit of study aims to continue improving students' four language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students' vocabulary will be expanded. Their listening and speaking ability will be enhanced through the learning of more topics in common and routine situations without much deviation from normal and standard manner or content. Their reading comprehension and writing ability will be improved through the learning of more complex structural patterns.
Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Demonstrate an expansion of their vocabulary;Better understand the Chinese character constructing methods;Apply more complex structural sentence patterns;Achieve a near lower-intermediate level of oral and written communication in common and routine situations without much deviation from normal and standard manner or content.
Required Reading Liu, Xun (et al) 2003, New practical Chinese reader: textbooks 1 & 2, Beijing Language and Culture University Press, Beijing. Liu, Xun (et al) 2003, New practical Chinese reader: workbooks 1 & 2, Beijing Language and Culture University Press, Beijing.
Recommended Reading Manser, MH 1999, Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English dictionary, (2nd edn), Oxford University Press, Oxford. IQChinese Corporation 2007, IQChinese: go 200, (CD), Tustin, USA. Kang, Yuhua & Lai, Siping 2007, Conversational Chinese 301(1), Beijing Language and Culture University Press, Beijing.
Class Contact Three hours per week for one semester.
Assessment Assignments 40%; Written exam 30%; Oral exam 30%.
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