Chinese for Non-Chinese Language Background Students VIII

• to further enhance students’ confidence and competence in Chinese communication through practice with particular emphasis on both oral and written communications involving very complex language structures, functions, and situations, and very advanced comprehensive listening, speaking, reading and writing skills training;
• to help them further develop listening and speaking skills for communicating in Putonghua for social, cultural, and professional purposes through project–based learning; and
• to further enhance their reading and writing skills through learning activities incorporated with project-related texts.

Listening:

• understand Putonghua with a variety of accents
• understand other person’s self-introduction and grasp the key information
• understand speeches related to familiar research topics and can ask questions on content or give comments

Speaking:

• introduce oneself in a clear and organized manner
• present the research background, questions, methods and findings clearly and precisely
• use transition language and connectives accurately and naturally

Reading:

• get the gist, locate important facts and details from a research paper
• understand accurately narrative compositions, get the gist, locate specific details and understand the intention of the writer

Writing ability:

• master the basics of paragraph writing
• write a narrative description of oneself
• compose an author’s introduction for an academic paper
• write a research proposal
• work with team members and collaboratively produce a research report

• collaborate with team-members to finish a project

• form an opinion on current topic about China
• express ideas comparing of the similarities and differences about various cultures