CHIN 2312 Intermediate Chinese II

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1 CHIN 2312 Intermediate Chinese II Course Materials: 1) Chinese Link: Zhong Wen Tian Di (Intermediate Chinese), Level 2, Part 1 (including both Traditional & Simplified Texts) (ISBN ) 2) Workbook to accompany Chinese Link, Level 2, Part 1 (Traditional & Simplified Texts) (ISBN ) 3) Audio CDs: Level 2 Part 1 (ISBN ) Textbook Recordings are available for listening at: Exercise book listening exercises can be downloaded at (this link also includes lesson texts and vocabulary): (all in MP3 format) Course Description: Continuation of review and application of skills in listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Emphasizes conversation, vocabulary acquisition, reading, composition, and culture. This course fulfills the Language, Philosophy, and Culture foundational component area, or the Additional Language, Philosophy, and Culture component area option of the core, and addresses the following required objectives: Critical Thinking, Communication, Social Responsibility, and Personal Responsibility. Prerequisites CHIN 2311 or departmental approval Learning Outcomes: 1 Summarize authentic spoken discourse produced by Chinese speakers of diverse origins. (Critical Thinking Skills, Communication Skills, and Social Responsibility) 2 Produce Chinese comprehensible to native speakers using complex grammatical structures to communicate analytical and interpretive information in both impromptu and prepared speech. (Critical Thinking Skills, Communication Skills, and Social Responsibility) 3 Demonstrate increasing comprehension of authentic written texts in a variety of genres. (Critical Thinking Skills, Communication Skills, and Social Responsibility) 4 Write evaluations and critiques at a high intermediate level using complex grammatical structures. Demonstrate ability to formulate cohesive paragraphs and

2 essays. (Critical Thinking Skills, Communication Skills, Social Responsibility, and Personal Responsibility) 5 Interpret cultural practices and products of the Chinese speaking world drawing on authentic materials including literature and the visual arts. (Critical Thinking Skills, Communication Skills, Social Responsibility, and Personal Responsibility) Objectives: Critical Thinking Skills: CHIN 2312 includes the skills of creative thinking, innovation, inquiry and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information by teaching students to analyze, interpret, comprehend, and produce spoken and written linguistic communication including both verbal and non-verbal cues at a high intermediate level. Students read and comprehend assigned texts and literary pieces, interpret artistic works, write essays to question author's or artist's purpose, summarize main ideas and themes, and logically consider alternative conclusions. Communication: The Intermediate Chinese II courses include effective development, interpretation, and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication. Students must demonstrate the ability to communicate orally and in writing with native language speakers and logically analyze significant points of view. Since current trends in language pedagogy include video presentation as well as web and audio blogs, this additionally includes interpretation and production of culturally specific non-verbal communication. This course will assist and evaluate the abilities students need to effectively communicate their ideas by providing modeling of good communication and providing opportunity for the students to present oral and written compositions. Personal Responsibility: Due to the inherent differences between the culture of the target language and that of the native language, students are shown to evaluate their own ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making as well as identify why someone from a different culture may make different decisions based on their distinct beliefs and values. Students articulate their own ethical values and identify the origin of their values. Students have an awareness and understanding of the choices they make and why they make them. Students are able to reference factors that influence their decisions. Students recognize ethical issues in the social context of problems. Students are able to make connections between their standards of behavior and the world that surrounds them. Their decision-making reflects awareness of issues beyond their immediate environment and show evidence that they are able to make such connections. Students analyze alternative ethical perspectives and predict the ramifications of those perspectives to a situation. Students demonstrate that they are able to see more than one approach

3 or perspective to a situation and can think systematically about possible consequences stemming from actions based on these perspectives. Social Responsibility: The Intermediate Chinese II courses increase a student s intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility and ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities by methodically evaluating implications and consequences of actions taken related to the specific countries of the target language. Students gather evidence from reliable sources in order to write essays demonstrating their knowledge of the target languages regional and national issues as well as overall global issues thereby gaining a greater awareness of their own civic responsibility. Students identify social and/or aesthetic issues and analyze them in light of a variety of cultural perspectives. Students identify and critique the broader impact (regional, national, and global) of their social, political, aesthetic, or economic issue. Students identify and appraise the impact of prejudices on attitudes and behaviors. Teamwork: This course utilizes cooperative learning in order to develop teamwork. This includes, but it is not limited to discussions, reciprocal teaching, writing, problem solving, etc. Grading System Sample Grading System Grade Scale Class Participation/Preparation 10% A compositions (5% each) 20% B Quizzes (10%) 10% C Assigned Homework (10%) 10% D Tests (10% each) 20% E Oral Tests (5% each) 10% Comprehensive Final Exam 10% Final Oral Exam 10% Assignments Sample: Class Outline Class Outline ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1/18 (Wed) Review syllabus Lesson 8 1/23 (Mon) Lesson 8

4 1/25 (Wed) Assignment due: Lesson 8, p. 160; Lesson 8 1/30 (Mon) Quiz 1: Lesson 8 ; Lesson 8 and Lesson 9 Assignment due: Lesson 8: p ; p /1 (Wed) Lesson 9 Assignment due: Lesson 9: p /6 (Mon) Lesson 9 Assignment due: Lesson 9: p /8 (Wed) Lesson 9 and Lesson 10; Quiz 2: Lesson 9 2/13 (Mon) Lesson 9 and Lesson 10; Assignment due: Lesson 9: p /15 (Wed) Lesson 10 2/20 (Mon) Lesson 10; Quiz 3: Lesson 10; Assignment due: Lesson 10: p /22 (Wed) Lesson 10; Test One Review; Assignment due: Lesson 10: p /27 (Mon) Test One (Lesson 8-10); Assignment due: Lesson 10: p /29 (Wed) Lesson 11 3/5 (Mon) Lesson 11; Assignment due: Lesson 11, p /7 (Wed) Lesson 11 and Lesson 12; Quiz 4: Lesson 11 Assignment due: Lesson 11: p /12 (Mon) & 3/14 (Wed) SPRING BREAK (No Class) 3/19 (Mon) Lesson 12; Quiz 5: Lesson 12 Assignment due: Lesson 12: p /21 (Wed) Lesson 12; Oral Review 3/26 (Mon) Oral Exam 1; Assignment due: Lesson 12: p /28 (Wed) Lesson 14 (NOTE: Lesson 13 is skipped.) 4/2 (Mon) Lesson 14 Assignment due: Lesson 14: p (without reading comprehension) 4/4 (Wed) Lesson 14; Quiz 6: Lesson 14 Assignment due: Lesson Six: p. 14: p (reading comprehension) 4/9 (Mon) Test 2 Review 4/11 (Wed) Test 2 (Lesson 11-12, 14) 4/16 (Mon) Lesson 15 (Writing Lab) 4/18 (Wed) Lesson 15 and Lesson 16 4/23 (Mon) Lesson 16 Assignment due: Lesson 15: p and Writing Lab 4/25 (Wed) Lesson 16 Assignment Lesson 16: p

5 4/30 (Mon) Comprehensive Review; Quiz 7: Lesson 16 Assignment Lesson 16: p /2 (Wed) Oral and Listening Comprehensive Review Assignment Lesson 16: p /7 (Mon) Oral Exam 2 5/9 (Wed) Final