Faculty
Saihong Li, Shaola Zhu

Course Coordinator
Saihong Li

Students must have an intermediate level of Chinese. Level of exchange students will be assessed by the course coordinator.

During this year a special focus is on the spoken language to improve the students speaking and listening abilities, sentence construction and self-expression and to enable students to listen to and talk about more specific topics, including economy and management-related topics. Furthermore, students’ skills in reading and comprehension of Chinese texts will be deepened.

Each teaching session incorporate some or all of the following tasks and is conducted in Chinese throughout: reading aloud, answering questions, practising new expressions, listening to tapes/videos, writing in Chinese, and free conversation (e.g. role playing) by actively using basic grammar, idioms and vocabularies. During class, students will present the content of texts studied in various form, such as oral and written. There is a use-oriented approach to grammar to develop the students’ skills in using grammar as a tool to “decipher” and readily understand language at a more complicated level.

Lectures, group work etc.

Biweekly assessment test and two oral exams.

Jane C.M. Kuo: Open for Business: Lessons in Chinese Commerce for the New Millenium, Boston: Cheng and Tsui Co., 2001, Vol. 1-2.