Chinese Intensive Accelerated 1b (LAS1134)

Overview

• University credits: 20
• FHEQ level: 4
• Availability: Chinese language degree students
• Frequency of class: 7 hours per week
• Group size: 20 students max
• Module Leader: Lucille Han

Description

This module continues intermediate Chinese language for students in the Chinese Intensive Accelerated Pathway. Through a high-contact and interactive classroom experience, you will further enhance your intermediate knowledge in Chinese reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar through formal and informal discourse covering a more complex and wider range of topics, advanced grammar, and media. You will also refine the skills needed for your Year Abroad programme. Together with Chinese Intensive Accelerated 1a and 1c, you will achieve the equivalent of HSK 4 by the end of the academic year.

Learning outcomes

• Use the knowledge of core and more complex grammar and vocabulary for the purposes of understanding, expression and communication.
• Write various types of short articles appropriately, having readers in mind.
• Use Chinese texts as a source of information.
• Apply mediation / translation skills and translate more complex and authentic Chinese texts precisely at a lower-intermediate level.
• Identify the difference between formal and informal, written and spoken Chinese in a range of source texts, and apply them in writing and translation appropriately.
• Gain a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences of different cultures and improve the intercultural competence.

Assessment

• Continuous Writing Assignment (20%)
• Mid-semester Written Test (25%)
• Written Examination (55%)