Chinese Courses

Targeting at students of non-Chinese language background, this course focuses on enhancing students’ reading and writing skills, including their ability to recognize and write Chinese characters, as well as developing their understanding of written Chinese and writing competence for daily life and social situations. Topics include daily routines, weather, directions, sightseeing, etc. 

• Diverse learning tasks for preparation and consolidation 

• Communicative practice in using language through collaborative activities 

• Personalized learning by applying acquired knowledge to real-life experiences 

• Reading and writing assessments 1 & 2: To understand information from texts, recognize and write commonly used characters, and write short narrative or practical texts for daily life and social purposes.  

• Other tasks:  Reflective task and pre-class & post-class learning tasks. 

Attributes 

• Non-Chinese language background students who have previously learnt Mandarin Chinese for less than 100 tuition hours, or who have achieved a proficiency level of HSK 2 or equivalent 

Exclusions 

• LANG 1113, LANG 1117-1118, LANG 1122 -1127 (prior to 2022-23)  

• LANG 1412-1413, LANG 1416, LANG 1421-1424 

Course outcomes 

• Confidence in reading and writing standard simplified Chinese 

• Greater sensitivity to cultural differences 

• Increased ownership of learning with enhanced self-directed learning skills 

Student testimonials  

• “I really loved the way there were discussions to engage. Also, there were interactive class exercises before and after class which helped to consolidate.” 
• “I really liked the learning material and topics ... they are useful in the everyday world ... the homework was very helpful to keep me on track ...”