Chinese for Non-Chinese Language Background Students IV

• to further enhance students’ confidence and competence in Chinese communication through practice with particular emphasis on both oral and written communications involving reasonably demanding language structures, functions, and situations, and slightly advanced comprehensive listening, speaking, reading and writing skills training;
• to help them further develop listening and speaking skills for communicating in Putonghua for social and professional purposes through a range of learning activities; and
• to further enhance their reading and writing skills through different learning tasks and activities.

Phonology:

• further consolidate the knowledge on PTH phonology (master intonation and liaison, and use pinyin to learn new words)
• use correct pronunciation, intonation and stress patterns in speaking PTH for social and professional interactions

Vocabulary:

• recognize up to 600 most frequently used Chinese characters to develop proficiency in the four skills
• acquire up to 600 words related to personal, school, social and work environments
• use common noun and verbs; particles and adverbs; expression of describing, explaining, commenting, clarifying, and connotations via modifiers and limiters
• use appropriate words, phrases and expressions in familiar oral and written interactions

Listening:

• understand classroom instructions
• demonstrate strong and effective communication skills in understanding conversations related to school, social and work environments for social, leisure and professional activities

Speaking:

• further consolidate their learning of Putonghua phonology and grammar for effective and fluent oral communication
• engage in conversations, simple discussion and presentation on topics related to school, work and social environment for effective and fluent communication with basic communicative strategies in social, leisure and professional settings
• achieve communicative functions such as description, explanation, illustration and comparison with clarity and coherence
• use grammatically correct sentences (such as, compound sentences, complements of time and action, co-verbal structures, etc.) in spoken discourses and tasks

Reading:

• get the main points and key information of longer written materials on general, social and professional settings
• retrieve key information from written materials on university life and studies
• retrieve key information from written materials on social settings (such as travel brochure and itinerary, online information about room/flight booking and visa application)

Writing:

• grasp more Chinese characters for writing and write descriptive and explanatory passages on familiar topics related to school, social and professional interactions with clarity and coherence
• write paragraphs outlining their study plans using a wide range of vocabulary related to study and work with clarity and coherence.
• write descriptive and explanatory passages related to traveling with clarity and coherence
• achieve communicative functions such as description, explanation, illustration and comparison related to leisure activities and traveling with clarity and coherence
• compose grammatically correct texts using compound sentences, complements of time and action, co-verbal structures, etc. in written discourses and tasks