Chinese Language 6

CHIN51060 Chinese Language 6 20 Full year Undergraduate Level 3 Ablimit Elterish Unit coordinator Minjie Xing Unit coordinator Haiyan Zeng Unit coordinator Hongjun Ma Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Last part of a Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0 Chinese 6 is intended for final-year students who began Mandarin Chinese ab initio in their first year and who have returned from the period of Residence Abroad, or for level 1 or 2 students who have substantial experience studying Chinese or who have already completed Chinese 5. Students are expected but not required to have passed HSK level 5 by the start of this unit. This course focuses on real language use in everyday communicative contexts. All learning activities, including preparation before class, discussion in class and homework after class, are conducted in the target language. Learning activities are organized to enhance students' comprehension of Chinese in preparation for participation in real-life Chinese-language situations. The course is designed to build upon and consolidate students’ advanced level of Chinese language proficiency, with the goal of reaching HSK level 6 and developing a vocabulary approaching 4000-5000 words by the end of the year. Chinese 6 is intended for final-year students who began Mandarin Chinese ab initio in their first year and who have returned from the period of Residence Abroad, or for level 1 or 2 students who have substantial experience studying Chinese or who have already completed Chinese 5. Students are expected but not required to have passed HSK level 5 by the start of this unit. This course focuses on real language use in everyday communicative contexts. All learning activities, including preparation before class, discussion in class and homework after class, are conducted in the target language. Learning activities are organized to enhance students' comprehension of Chinese in preparation for participation in real-life Chinese-language situations. The course is designed to build upon and consolidate students’ advanced level of Chinese language proficiency, with the goal of reaching HSK level 6 and developing a vocabulary approaching 4000-5000 words by the end of the year. This course aims to:<ul> <li>Enable students to understand advanced reading materials from various original Chinese-language sources</li> <li>Enhance students’ ability to communicate orally on a variety of topics</li> <li>Guide students in applying a variety of writing skills and grammatical structures to specific tasks</li></ul>  By the end of this course students will be able to: <ul> <li>Produce a solid argument in both oral and written form </li> <li>Exchange information with native speakers fluently </li> <li>Express ideas in Chinese clearly, precisely and coherently </li> <li>Extract information from a variety of media and sources, including newspapers, journals, radio broadcasts, TV and the internet </li> <li>Plan, structure and evaluate learning strategies and processes </li> <li>Read various kinds of Chinese texts (literary, journalistic, etc) dealing with a wide range of topics </li> <li>Demonstrate a good level of understanding and analysis of advanced Chinese-language texts (literary, journalistic, etc.) on a wide range of contemporary issues </li> <li>Reflect on the activity of writing and apply appropriate approaches in their own writing </li> <li>Express themselves clearly on complex subjects in a well-structured essay or a report </li> <li>Speak with a high degree of fluency and accuracy and take part in discussion and debate covering a range of social, cultural and political contexts </li> <li>Prepare and give oral presentations in Chinese on a wide range of topics </li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to: <ul> <li>Analyse difficult authentic texts by using reading comprehension skills </li> <li>Explore various social issues in China </li> <li>Write a clear report using coherent paragraphs </li></ul>  By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul> <li> Analyse difficult authentic texts by using the reading comprehension skills</li> <li> Explore various social issues in China</li> <li> Write a clear report using coherent paragraphs</li></ul>  By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul> <li> Follow current trends in the development of the Chinese language and in Chinese media and society using Chinese-language materials</li> <li> Write descriptive and argumentative essays</li> <li> Master the writing of different types of essays</li> <li> Reach, or be close to reaching, HSK level 6 (requiring a vocabulary of 5000 Chinese words)</li></ul>  By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul> <li> Develop independent learning skills</li> <li> Work effectively in pairs and groups</li> <li> Acquire advanced critical reading skills</li> <li> Demonstrate high-level presentation and debating skills</li> <li> Write clearly and effectively</li></ul>  Other Verbal communication skills: be able to express ideas clearly and confidently in presentation and speech Written communication skills: be able to express oneself clearly in writing Motivation: be able to act on initiative, identify opportunities Drive: determination to get things done, make things happen and look for better ways to do things Topics may change from year to year; new topics will be incorporated according to the actual circumstances of each semester. The following is an indicative list of topics that may be covered in a given year:Semester 1:Week 1. Online dating   Week 2. Brand-name fever   Week 3. Television dramas and popular culture   Week 4. The city of Yiwu in Zhejiang  Week 5. Floating population   Week 6. Changing views of marriage   Week 7. Chinese food culture   Week 8. Confucianism in modern China   Week 9. Chinese architecture in transition   Week 10. Educated youth  Week 11. A start for democracy  Week 12. Revision  Semester 2:Topic 1: Current Affairs  Topic 2: International Relations   Topic 3: Chinese Political Parties   Topic 4: Working and living in China   Topic 5: Birth control policy of China  Topic 6: Chinese Poetry   Topic 7: Chinese Fiction    Topic 8: Cultural, linguistic and ideological conflicts   A combination of lectures, seminars and tutorials, totalling three contact hours per week. 0 Other 100%  <figure class="table"><table border="1"><tbody><tr><td>Assessment task  </td><td>Formative or Summative </td><td>Weighting within unit (if summative) </td></tr><tr><td>S1 Participation/discussion </td><td>Formative/ summative </td><td>5% </td></tr><tr><td>Oral exam </td><td>Summative </td><td>10% </td></tr><tr><td>Essay </td><td>Summative </td><td>10% </td></tr><tr><td>S2 Participation/discussion </td><td>Formative/ summative </td><td>5% </td></tr><tr><td>Essay and Coursework </td><td>Summative </td><td>10% </td></tr><tr><td>Oral Exam  </td><td>Summative </td><td>10%            </td></tr><tr><td>Written Exam </td><td>Summative </td><td>50%</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>Resit Assessment:Video and Essay <ul> <li>Comments made during class discussion regarding the relevance and coherence of student participation in discussion</li> <li>Comments made during oral presentation regarding the relevance and coherence of the presentation, including word choice, sentence structure and content</li> <li>One-to-one feedback before oral presentation</li></ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:168px;">Pre/Co/Antirequisite units</td> <td style="width:493px;">CHIN51050 (Chinese 5) and successful completion of Residence Abroad in China or equivalent</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:168px;">Medium of language</td> <td style="width:493px;">Mandarin Chinese</td> </tr> </tbody></table> Y Lee, Kunshan Carolyn et al, The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. (required textbook)Wang, Hailong, Cultural Interpretations of China: An Advanced Reader. Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2002.Wang, Hailong, Reading China through Newspaper Contextual Comprehension and Pedagogical Practice. Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2004.Guenier, A. The Little Book of Health: Chinese Secrets to Happy Living. Manutius Press. 2018.  Lectures 11 Seminars 11 Tutorials 11 0 167 Exceptions to word-processed assignments: Assessed coursework and the essay should be hand-written.  Students may take a one-volume Chinese-English-Chinese dictionary provided on the examination date.