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Unit of Study LAN10002 - Chinese Language IB (2018)

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  • Enrolment information

    Students who are native speakers of Chinese should normally enrol in 3rd year units.

Unit description

Follows on from Chinese Language IA and continues students' introduction to Modern Standard Chinese. It develops students' listening and speaking skills, and introduces them to a wider variety of situations of language use and language patterns. Students will expand their vocabulary and double the number of characters they can read and write.

Unit content

  • Practical conversation skills
  • Extending Chinese vocabulary and knowledge of characters
  • Use of optative verbs
  • Sentences and grammar
  • Making comparisons

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2018

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 use Chinese appropriately in simple conversations on topics including home, study, daily routines and future plans
2 recognise and produce the tones of Modern Standard Chinese with increasing accuracy
3 read and write simple passages in Chinese of at least 150 characters in length
4 understand and answer questions in spoken Chinese on a known topic
5 recognise and write at least 600 words in Chinese characters.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. use Chinese appropriately in simple conversations on topics including home, study, daily routines and future plans
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  2. recognise and produce the tones of Modern Standard Chinese with increasing accuracy
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  3. read and write simple passages in Chinese of at least 150 characters in length
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  4. understand and answer questions in spoken Chinese on a known topic
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  5. recognise and write at least 600 words in Chinese characters.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7: