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Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

7

Level of learning

Intermediate

Former School/College

Former School of Arts and Social Sciences

Pre-requisites

have completed unit/s: LAN20001 - Chinese Language IIA

Unit aim

Follows on from Chinese Language IIA to complete students' basic grounding in Modern Standard Chinese. Speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in Chinese are further developed, as are students' skills and strategies as a language learner. Attention is given both to the structures and patterns of the language, as well as to its socio-cultural context; and various aspects of Chinese culture, customs and society are introduced through studying spoken and written language texts.

Unit content

  • Chinese language in a variety of contexts
  • Conversing with Chinese speakers
  • Chinese culture: customs, festivals, scholarly arts, tourism and leisure
  • Geography and statistics of China
  • Passive and conditional sentences
  • Resultative complements
  • Verbs
  • Expressing sequences of actions or events
  • Two-part sentences

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 contexts relating to daily life and personal expression
2 demonstrate improving speaking and listening skills
3 recognise and use simple forms of most of the major grammatical structures of Chinese
4 recognise and write at least 1000 words in Chinese characters
5 accurately translate simple texts from Chinese to English, and sentences from English to Chinese
6 how awareness and use of a variety of skills and strategies as a language learner.

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

  1. use Chinese appropriately in a variety of contexts relating to daily life and personal expression
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  2. demonstrate improving speaking and listening skills
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  3. recognise and use simple forms of most of the major grammatical structures of Chinese
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  4. recognise and write at least 1000 words in Chinese characters
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  5. accurately translate simple texts from Chinese to English, and sentences from English to Chinese
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  6. how awareness and use of a variety of skills and strategies as a language learner.
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7: