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Chinese

Code: 43971 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
4316481 Teaching Chinese to Spanish Speakers OB 0

Contact

Name:
Sara Rovira Esteva
Email:
sara.rovira@uab.cat

Teachers

Shu-Ching Liao Pan
Sara Rovira Esteva

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

None


Objectives and Contextualisation

This module has three main objectives. First, present and familiarisize students with the main authoritative sources in relation to Standard Chinese. Second, review the main trends of descriptive and pedagogical grammar of Chinese and its works of reference. Finally, analyze Chinese and Spanish contrastively at different language levels to identify those aspects that may present more difficulties for Spanish speakers.


Competences

  • Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  • Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  • Make a comparative analysis of linguistic and cultural aspects of Chinese and Spanish for teaching purposes.
  • Make a critical self-reflection and identify strengths and weaknesses.
  • Recognise the specific characteristics of Chinese language and culture to apply them to the teaching of Chinese for Spanish speakers.
  • Work individually and in a team and be able to analyse, interpret and synthesise the information generated.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyse and evaluate different linguistic approaches to any feature of Chinese grammar, for teaching purposes.
  2. Analyse and evaluate fundamental texts on the Chinese language for teaching and reference purposes.
  3. Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  4. Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  5. Describe the Chinese language for didactic purposes, covering all its aspects: phonology, morphology, lexis, syntax, pragmatics and discourse.
  6. Identify and critically analyse the literature dealing with the respective linguistic characteristics of Chinese and Spanish.
  7. Identify and find solutions for Spanish-speakers' main difficulties in learning Chinese.
  8. Identify the main similarities and differences between Chinese and Spanish, in all their aspects, for pedagogical purposes.
  9. Make a critical self-reflection and identify strengths and weaknesses.
  10. Work individually and in a team and be able to analyse, interpret and synthesise the information generated.

Content

Block 1: Introductory aspects

  • Terminology and key concepts related to TCFL
  • Principles of Chinese writing
  • Phonology and transcription of Standard Chinese
  • Main authorized sources in relation to grammar and other reference materials I
  • Syntax and pragmatics of Standard Chinese

Block 2: The grammar of modern Chinese

  • Main trends of the descriptive and pedagogical grammar of Standard Chinese
  • Words classes in modern Standard Chinese
  • Analysis of difficult and important grammatical aspects of modern Standard Chinese
  • Important teaching aspects of word classes
  • Grammatical errors of adverbs I
  • Parts of speech in modern Standard Chinese
  • Complement types of modern Standard Chinese: resultative, potential, directional, etc.
  • Important teaching aspects of subjects and numerals
  • Error analysis of verbal reduplication
  • Error analysis of the resultative complement
  • Sentence types of modern Standard Chinese I: topic-comment, subject-predicate, adjectival predicate, etc.
  • Error analysis of the potential complement
  • Error analysis of the duration complement
  • Sentence types of modern Standard Chinese I: shi-type (是) sentences, ba-type (把) sentences, double object sentences, passive sentences, etc.
  • Error analysis of adverbs II
  • Error analysis of the complement of manner
  • Important teaching aspects of sentences I
  • Superiority comparative sentences: characteristics, important aspects, and error analysis
  • Emphatic sentences: with an interrogative pronoun, double negation, etc.
  • Complex sentences: coordinated, progressive, etc.
  • Subordinated complex sentences: causative, adversative, conditional, etc.
  • Important teaching aspects of sentences II: complex and emphatic sentences
  • Analysis and strategies for Chinese grammar teaching

Block 3: Contrastive analysis of Chinese and Spanish

  • Introduction to contrastive analysis
  • Contrastive analysis of phonological aspects of Chinese and Spanish
  • Contrastive analysis of morphosyntactic aspects of Chinese and Spanish
  • Contrastive analysis of discursive and pragmatic aspects of Chinese and Spanish

Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Discussion 4 0.16 9, 10
Lectures 20 0.8 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Problem-based learning 4 0.16 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Type: Supervised      
Oral presentations 1 0.04 3, 9
Project design and oral or written presentation 6 0.24 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Type: Autonomous      
Project writing 40 1.6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Readings and documentation 50 2 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

In this module both Spanish and Chinese will be used as working languages and various teaching methodologies will be followed. All of them presuppose an active role on the part of the students. Throughout the module, the following methodologies will be combined:

• Lectures
• Problem-based learning
• Practical activities
• Debates
• Preparation and oral or written presentations
• Supervised work

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.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Attendance and participation in class 20% 2 0.08 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
Exam 20% 2 0.08 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Group synthesis activity 30% 6 0.24 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Portfolio 30% 15 0.6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Description of continuous assessment by blocks:

  • Group synthesis activity: 30% 
  • Portfolio: 15% (B1) + 5% (B2) + 10% (B3) = 30% 
  • Exam (B2): 20% 
  • Attendance and participation in class: 20% (to pass this course, attendance at 80% of classes is compulsory)

Single assessment

  • Exam: 35%
  • Portfolio: 30%
  • Individual synthesis activity: 35% 

Final assessment review will follow the same procedure as that followed for continuous assessment.


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  • Casas-Tost, Helena; Rovira-Esteva, Sara; Suárez, Anne-Hélène. 2024. Lengua china para traductores / 学中文，做翻译. Vol II. Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. (Materials, 198). (7.ª ed.).  

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Software

No specific software needed.


Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(TE) Theory 1 Spanish first semester afternoon