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Unit of Study LAN20001 - Chinese Language IIA (2014)

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  • Enrolment information

    HSC study of Chinese at 2-unit or 3-unit level, or equivalent, will be accepted as qualifying students for entry. Students who are native speakers of Chinese should normally enrol in 3rd year units.

Unit description

Designed to build on the foundations of Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) established in Chinese Language IA and IB. Speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in Chinese are further developed, as are students’ skills and strategies as a language learner. The socio-cultural context and various aspects of Chinese culture, customs and society are introduced.

Unit content

  • Chinese language in everyday contexts
  • Resultative complements
  • Further uses of sentences
  • Comparisons expression similarity
  • Imminent, progressive and continuous aspects and changes of state
  • Complex directional complements

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online Session 1 N/A

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 a variety of everyday contexts
2 demonstrate improving speaking and listening skills
3 recognise and use simple forms of a variety of basic grammatical structures of Chinese
4 recognise and write at least 800 words in Chinese characters
5 demonstrate awareness of some socio-cultural aspects of the language

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

  1. use Chinese appropriately in a variety of everyday contexts
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  2. demonstrate improving speaking and listening skills
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  3. recognise and use simple forms of a variety of basic grammatical structures of Chinese
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  4. recognise and write at least 800 words in Chinese characters
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  5. demonstrate awareness of some socio-cultural aspects of the language
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:

Prescribed learning resources

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