LCiA Chinese Course 2006-2012

This course is taught in English language and designed for beginner Chinese learners. For tutor lessons, the meeting time is suggested 1.5 hours every week while lecture lesson is scheduled 2 sessions (3 hours) every week. The purpose of this course, focusing on book 1 is to:

• Develop communicate (listen, speak, read, write) accurately and appropriately in simple Chinese for common everyday purposes such as greeting, introducing friends and relatives, identifying people or objects, asking for one's personal information (including name, occupation, nationality, address, phone number), expressing gratitude to someone, sending someone your regard, making a reply to a complimentary remark, talking about your family, your school and your studies, looking for someone, asking the time, making an appointment, making an invitation, making a suggestion, asking for someone’s opinion, shopping, going to hospital, making a phone call, rent a house and offering congratulations or holiday wishes.
• To lay a good foundation for you to further your studies of the Chinese language at intermediate level by helping you (a) to master the Chinese phonetic system so as to be able to speak Chinese with correct pronunciation and intonation, (b) to understand the basic Chinese grammatical concepts so as to monitor your own Chinese language production, (c) to be aware of some of aspects of Chinese culture imbedded in the Chinese language, and (d) to know the structures of Chinese characters so that you are able to recognize and write approximately 200 Chinese characters.
• Basic reading and writing skills in simplified Chinese characters.
• Get to know Chinese culture and history through regular in-class discussion of Chinese food, movie, music, astrology, fine arts, etc.
• An understanding of the language learning process so that you are able to continue studying effectively on your own.

Requirements

Students have basic English communication skills, which means at least students should have lower lever plus in English Proficiency Test.

Study Materials

As the Study Materials shows, in Book 1 there are written tests which will cover speaking skills (pronunciation, fluency, accuracy, and appropriateness of speech), listening comprehension, usage of words, grammatical knowledge, reading comprehension in characters. Occasional quiz will also take place in class.