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Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

7

Level of learning

Intermediate

Unit aim

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

Learning outcomes

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.

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

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