Degree | Type | Year |
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2500894 Tourism | FB | 1 |
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There are no entry requirements
Students will develop their communicative skills –oral and written–, so that by the end of the course they will be able to:
1. Identify and reproduce the basic strokes of Chinese characters
2. Know about the Chinese phonological system and discriminating close sounds
3. Be familiar with pinyin (the Chinese transcription system) and relating it to phonemes
4. Communicate in simple everyday life situations
5. Use polite expressions in formal contexts
6. Introduce oneself and one’s family members in Chinese
7. Follow a basic conversation on the phone
8. Give directions in Chinese
9. Understand brief texts related to tourism (personal details, nationalities, a drinks menu, etc)
10. Identify Chinese cultural patterns, relevant to their field (tourism)
11. Acquire basic knowledge about intercultural communication and Chinese social behaviour
Students will also
1. Gradually develop accuracy (in sentence formation, pronunciation, vocabulary, register, etc) and fluency (production speed, ability to express ideas and developing discourse) both in written and oral expression.
2. Learn strategies and skills to understand simple written and oral texts.
3. Apply strategies of self-teaching outside the classroom context.
4. Become more able to function effectively in everyday situations.
5. Use online resources to learn the language.
In the process of learning a language all skills are developing simultaneously. However, for the purposes of this guide, linguistic contents have been divided into
A module on some sociocultural aspects of Modern China is also included, due to the importance of such knowledge for successful interaction with Chinese people.
Language functions
The language functions of the communicative activities below have language functions related to tourism and general language.
a) Social function
b) Informative function
c) Expressive function (feelings and moods)
d) Inductive function
e) Metalinguistic function
Grammar and syntax
Students will be able to identify and use correctly thefollowing grammatical and syntactical elements:
The sentence
Pronouns
Verbs
Adverbs and other expressions
Others:
Lexical contents
The lexical contents of the course are classified as follows:
Phonetics
Students will be able to identify Standard Chinese sounds and match them to their pinyin representation. They will also identify and pronounce correctly the sounds represented by pinyin. We will focus on those sounds that do not exist in the students’ native languages, and whose pinyin representation is different from Catalan and Spanish sounds:
Sociocultural contents
The sociocultural topics that will be explored in class are:
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Classes | 56.5 | 2.26 | |
In-person | 56.5 | 2.26 | |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials | 3 | 0.12 | |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Theory | 10 | 0.4 |
Students are expected to use the language in and out the classroom to get first hand practice in different communicative contexts. The teacher will prompt them to use the language during the learning process: thus, activities are designed to promote student participation in class.
The methodology is basically interactive. Students have to apply their language knowledge to complete a series of oral and written tasks about tourism and general contexts. The main focus of this course is, then, the student’s learning process rather than teacher’s theoretical explanations.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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End of a term exam | 20% | 4 | 0.16 | 1 |
Essays | 10% | 4 | 0.16 | 1 |
Final exam | 30% | 4 | 0.16 | 1 |
Listening activities | 10% | 4 | 0.16 | 1 |
Oral activities | 10% | 4 | 0.16 | 1 |
Vocabulary tests | 20% | 4 | 0.16 | 1 |
No specific attendance percentage is required in order to be eligible for the Continuous Assessment.
It consists of
1. Continuous assessment activities
2. Final exam
Continuous assessment activities
Final exam
Students who opt not to do the continuous assessment have the right to do a final exam.
Resit
Only those students who fail the final exam with a result between 3, 5 and 4.9 (out of 10) are eligible to resit the exam.
The grade for the subject will be NOT EVALUABLE when the student attends less than half of the assessment activities and/or does not attend the final exam.
Single assessment
The final grade for the subject will be calculated according to the following percentages:
Oral exam 20%
Written exam 30%
Exam about other skills 50%
Grade revision and resit procedures for the subject are the same as those for continual assessment.
The book used in class will be:
Ding Anqi, Chen Xin, Jin Lili (2010) Discover China: Student's book One + workbook (Llibre de l'alumne U + Llibre d'exercicis). Oxford: Macmillan Education; Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
The teacher will also provide extra exercises on specific vocabulary related to tourism either in class or on moodle.
As this is a beginners course, the suggested resources are websites for extra pronunciation, reading and writing practice.
Online resources for studying:
— http://www.nciku.com/ - dictionary with extra information about writing strokes and vocabulary
— http://www.chino-china.com/ - dictionary, text editor, writing resources, forum and information on Chinese culture
— http://www.yellowbridge.com/ - several resources for learning Chinese
— http://www.hanzigrids.com/ - templates to practice character writing
For pronunciation practice:
— http://www.quickmandarin.com/chinesepinyintable - grid of all Chinese syllables (with sound)
— http://pinyinpractice.com/tones.htm - interactive games to practice tones
— http://lingomi.com/products/chinese-listening-practice - Chinese pronunciation course (free demo)
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Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(TE) Theory | 1 | Chinese | annual | morning-mixed |