Seminar: 4 hrs/week
and
Lab: 1 hr/week
The functional and communicative approach is used.
In this course, students engage in a variety of learning activities such as:
- lecture material presented by the instructor, in person or online synchronously or asynchronously;
- task-based practice in pairs and small groups, in class and in lab, presented in person, or online synchronously, or asynchronously with instructor facilitation;
- listening comprehension;
- audio-visual activities;
- online computer-assisted learning.
Instructor feedback and revision of submitted work is provided.
- Lower-intermediate-level sentence structures
- Lower-intermediate-level vocabulary
- A minimum of 250 Chinese characters
- Aspects of Chinese culture
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of spoken discourse at the lower-intermediate level;
- Exhibit an understanding of written texts at the lower-intermediate level;
- Conduct lower-intermediate-level communicative tasks and conversations;
- Construct written expressions and write guided compositions;
- Articulate an understanding of target cultures.
Assessment will be based on course objectives and will be carried out in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. Instructors may use a student’s record of attendance and/or level of active participation in a course as part of the student’s graded performance. Where this occurs, expectations and grade calculations regarding class attendance and participation must be clearly defined in the Instructor Course Outline. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course. This is a graded course.
Example evaluation scheme:
|
Written Evaluations |
50% |
|
Oral Evaluations |
50% |
|
Total |
100% |
No single evaluation will be worth more than 20%.
Evaluations may be done in person and/or online.
Note: This course includes testing worth more than 10 % during the last 14 days of classes. A standing variance to the Douglas College Evaluation Policy was granted by Education Council on April 24, 2017.
Textbooks and materials are to be purchased by students. A list of required textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of the semester.
Example texts may include:
Liu, Yuehua, et al. Integrated Chinese Level 2: Simplified Chinese Characters. Cheng & Tsui Company (current edition).
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