Chinese Proficiency II

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1024360BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Maarten Gernay (course titular)
Jianwei Xu

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
30 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
70 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course is the continuation of Chinese Proficiency 1. Students continue to develop in all four areas of language skills (i.e. speaking, listening, reading and writing), within which a strong emphasis is placed on the development of speaking skills. At the end of the course, students should master a minimal vocabulary of 360 words (combined in approximately 600 words) and basic to intermediate grammatical constructions.

Course material

Handbook (Required) : Standard Course Book HSK 2, Textbook (128 pp), 9787561937266
Handbook (Required) : Standard Course Book HSK 2, Workbook, 9787561937808

Additional info

The teacher of this course can be reached on Maarten.Gernay@vub.be

This course requires an estimated total of 150 study hours, including lecturing time, class practice and self-study. This course offers 4 contact hours per week. Attendance is strongly encouraged to guarantee positive learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Upon successful completion of the course, students will have developed the following language skills in Mandarin Chinese:
Oral:
• Students have a fluent and accurate Chinese Mandarin pronunciation (syllables and tones)
• Students are able to talk about themselves and ask about others (e.g. hobbies, holiday plans, work situation, likes and dislikes, routines)
• Students can correctly use intermediate grammar: prohibitions, conditions, asking any type of numerical information, verb diminutives, object displacement, result complements, comparisons
• Students can apply language in specific contexts, e.g. hotel front desk & general services, doctor visits, negotiation, expression of opinions
Written:
• Students can recognise and read 360 characters of the HSK 1 and HSK 2 level.
• Students can write 360 characters of HSK 1 and HSK 2 levels and apply them in written sentences.
• Students are able read and interact with texts consisting of HSK 1 and 2 vocabulary exclusively with Chinese characters.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 80% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 20% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

mondeling examen with a relative weight of 80 which comprises 80% of the final mark.

Note: The total grade consists for 80% of the oral exam at the end of the semester

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

permanentie evaluaties with a relative weight of 20 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

Note: The total grade consists for 20% of permanent evaluation based on weekly writing assignments

Additional info regarding evaluation

Exams in August or September: Permanent evaluation transferred from previous semesters (20%) and an oral exam (80%).

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context