CHINESE 100
Beginning Modern Chinese 1
Please note: this is archived course information from 2021 for CHINESE 100.
Description
This course is designed to provide basic written and spoken skills in modern standard Chinese and is designed for students who have little or no prior knowledge of the language, normally not higher than NCEA 1. If you are unsure, please check Which Chinese language course should I enrol in?
This course gradually and systematically introduces grammar and Chinese characters with tutorials four days a week to ensure the best learning results.
By the end of the course, you are expected to communicate orally in Chinese on simple topics of everyday life, to read simple texts written in Chinese characters and to write about 150 Chinese characters.
Please note that if you are a Native Speaker of this subject, or have passed a more advance language acquisition course in this subject, you cannot take this course.
If you are a Native Speaker and enrol into this course it could be considered cheating which may result in you being found to have committed Academic Misconduct.
Native Speaker refers to those who can speak fluently and read and write without difficulty. You may have acquired this language from early childhood and speaking this language remains one of your primary means of communication.
Students enrolled into this course will need to complete a Language Proficiency Declaration.
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Availability 2021
Summer School, repeated Semester 1
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Danping Wang
Reading/Texts
Integrated Chinese (Volume 1), Textbook (4th ed.), Yuehua Liu and Tao-chung Yao, et al. Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company. 2017.
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
CHINESE 100: 15 points
Restrictions
May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed
