Beginners’ Chinese I – CHIN 101A
Course description: An entry-level course designed to give students a good introduction to spoken and written Chinese. Students will learn 150 characters and 150 vocabulary words.
Prerequisites: None.
Co-requisites: None.
Hours: (0 – 5L – 0): 65 Instruction hours.
Credit value: 3
Instructor(s):
Xinxin Fang, PhD
Office: HA107
Phone: +1 780 378 8437
Email: xinxin.fang@concordia.ab.ca
Required resources:
- Moodle (CCMS) access. Students should check their course Moodle sites on a daily basis.
- Jiang Liping. (2014). Standard Course HSK 1. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press.
- Jiang Liping. (2014). Standard Course HSK 1 Workbook. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press.
Optional resources:
http://www.chinesecio.com/
http://www.chinesetest.cn/index.do
http://www.cltguides.com/main.action
Course objectives:
The course outcomes include:
- Linguistic knowledge: pronunciation, characters and words, grammar and function, them and discourse.
- Linguistic skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing
- Cultural competence: cultural knowledge, cultural understanding, cross-cultural competence, international perspectives.
- Strategies: affective strategies, learning strategies, communicative strategies, resource strategies, interdisciplinary strategies.
The objectives of CHIN 101 are: Students will be able to understand basic language materials related to common personal and daily life. They can retell, recite and copy words or sentences with fair accuracy and can write words or sentences following example. They will begin to develop interest and confidence in learning the Chinese language. They will acquire preliminary knowledge of learning strategies, communicative strategies, resource strategies and interdisciplinary strategies under the instructor’s guidance. They will gain introductory Chinese cultural knowledge, preliminary cross-cultural competence and international perspectives.
Course Schedule: (note that this schedule is subjected to modification by the instructor at any time)
| Week | Topic | Reading(s) | Notes |
| 1 | Introduction- Hello! | L1. 1 | |
| 2 | Thank you | L1. 2 | 3 mins quiz Bring laptops – type in Chinese |
| What is your name? She is my Chinese teacher | L1.3 | 3 mins quiz role-play | |
| 3 | She is my Chinese teacher | L1.4 | 3 mins quiz role-play |
| 4 | Her daughter is 20 years old this year | L1.5 | 3 mins quiz
Task project |
| 5 | EXAM # 1 | ||
| I can speak Chinese | L1. 6 | 3 mins quiz
Task project |
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| 6 | Thanksgiving – No class | ||
| What’s the date today | L1. 7 | 3 mins quiz
A Chinese Song |
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| 7 | I’d like some tea | L1. 8 | 3 mins quiz
Cultural presentation |
| 8 | Where does your son work | L1. 9 | 3 mins quiz Role-play |
| 9 | Can I sit here | L1. 10 | 3 mins quiz
Word association |
| EXAM # 2 | Mid-term exam | ||
| 10 | Fall Reading Week – No classes | ||
| 11 | What is the time now | L1. 11 | 3 mins quiz Semantic mapping |
| 12 | What will the weather be like tomorrow | L1. 12 | 3 mins quiz presentation |
| 13 | He is learning to cook Chinese food. She has bought quite a few clothes | L1. 13-14 | 3 mins quiz
Task project |
| 14 | I came here by air | L1. 15 | 3 mins quiz
A Chinese song |
| Exam review | Bring questions |
Beginners’ Chinese II – CHIN 102A
Course description: As a sequel course to CHIN 101, this course is designed to give students further training in spoken and written Chinese. Students will learn 300 characters and 300 vocabulary words.
Prerequisites: Chinese 101
Co-requisites: None.
Hours: (0 – 5L – 0): 65 Instruction hours.
Credit value: 3
Instructor(s):
Xinxin Fang, PhD
Office: HA107
Phone: +1 780 378 8437
Email: xinxin.fang@concordia.ab.ca
Required resources:
- Moodle (CCMS) access. Students should check their course Moodle sites on a daily basis.
- Jiang Liping. (2014). Standard Course HSK 2. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press.
- Jiang Liping. (2014). Standard Course HSK 2 Workbook. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press.
Optional resources:
http://www.chinesecio.com
http://www.chinesetest.cn/index.do
http://www.cltguides.com/main.action
http://bishun.shufaji.com/0x660E.html
http://vividict.com
Course objectives:
The course outcomes include:
- Linguistic knowledge: pronunciation, characters and words, grammar and function, them and discourse.
- Linguistic skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing
- Cultural competence: cultural knowledge, cultural understanding, cross-cultural competence, international perspectives.
- Strategies: affective strategies, learning strategies, communicative strategies, resource strategies, interdisciplinary strategies.
The objectives of CHIN 102 are: Students will be able to understand and master basic language materials related to common personal and daily life. They will master basic sentence structures, make simple sentences, provide simple descriptions, and exchange some basic information. They will begin to develop interest and confidence in learning the Chinese language. They will acquire preliminary knowledge of learning strategies, communicative strategies, resource strategies and interdisciplinary strategies. They will build Chinese cultural knowledge, cross-cultural competence and international perspectives gained from CHIN 101.
Lecture topics: (note that this schedule is subjected to modification by the instructor at any time)
| Week | Topic | Reading(s) | Notes |
| 1 | September is the best time to visit Beijing | L2. 1 | |
| 2 | I get up at six every day | L2. 2 | 3 mins quiz
Task project |
| 3 | The red one on the left is mine | L2. 3 | 3 mins quiz
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| He recommended me for this job | L2. 4 | 3 mins quiz
Task project |
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| 4 | Take this one | L2. 5 | 3 mins quiz
Group work |
| 5 | Why don’t you eat more | L2. 6 | 3 mins quiz
presentation |
| 6 | EXAM # 1 | ||
| Do you live far from your company | L2. 7 | 3 mins quiz
Word association |
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| 7 | Winter Reading Week – No classes | ||
| 8 | Let me think about it and I’ll tell you later | L2. 8 | 3 mins quiz
Role-play |
| 9 | There were too many questions. I didn’t finish all of them. | L2. 9 | 3 mins quiz
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| 10 | Stop looking for your cell phone; it’s on the desk | L2. 10 | 3 mins quiz
Task project |
| 11 | EXAM # 2 | ||
| He is three years older than me | L2. 11 | 3 mins quiz
Task project |
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| 12 | You wear too little | L2. 12 | 3 mins quiz
Semantic mapping |
| The door is open | L2. 13 | 3 mins quiz | |
| 13 | Easter Holiday
—No classes |
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| Have you seen that movie | L2. 14 | 3 mins quiz
presentation |
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| 14 | The New Year is coming | L2. 15 | 3 mins quiz
A Chinese Song |
| 15 | What’s your plan for the weekend | L2. 15 | |
| Exam review | Bring questions |