Teaching code

4S003689

Credits

9

Coordinatore

Michele Mannoni

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-OR/21 - CHINESE AND SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Moodle Seminars

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students should demonstrate that they possess a practical knowledge of modern Chinese grammar and lexicon, enough for them to communicate independently on simple topics. Their knowledge of Chinese lexicon and grammar will be enhanced, as well as basic communicative skills, in particular listening, reading, written and oral production. Moreover, another aim of the course is to let students acquire an active and passive knowledge of a wider lexicon, with particular attention to specific terms from the domains of trade, business and tourism. At the end of the course, students will reach a level of linguistic knowledge and a vocabulary required for an HSK3 certificate, corresponding to the B1 level in the international language standards.

Program

The course is divided in two modules (Mod. 1 and Mod. 2), one each semester.

The course aims to focus on Units 19 to 34 of the book by M. Abbiati and Z. Ruoying «Dialogare in Cinese», volumes 1 and 2. Grammar teacher is going to lecture students on the syntactic structures shown in the said units. Grammar notes and grammar exercises present in the book written by C. Romagnoli et al. are also going to be addressed, as well as more equipment and exercises uploaded by the teacher on the Moodle platform. Students have to individually look for and study the relevant grammar notions found in the book “Yufa! A Practical Guide to Mandarin Chinese Grammar” by TENG Wen-hua (2011). Students are expected to choose which parts of the book they need to study by using the table of contents. This has to be done consistently throughout the course.

For both modules, during classes taught by native Mandarin teacher, students are going to learn the words shown in the units of the book and how to use them (措辞) with a contrastive perspective with respect to the Italian language. In the same time they are going to actively exercise the use of syntactic structures taught by the grammar teacher. With native Mandarin teacher, students are going to improve their speaking skills (会话) and listening skills (听力) of HSK3-level-alike oral texts.

Reference materials:
- Compulsory: see below relevant section;
- Suggested:
• PLECO – App. gratuita for iPhone, iPad, Android
• WENLIN –Software for Learning Chinese, Wenlin Institute (www.wenlin.com)
• Abbiati, Magda (2011) “Grammatica di cinese moderno”. Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina.
• Casacchia, Giorgio; Bai Yukun (2013). “Dizionario Cinese-Italiano”. Venezia: Cafoscarina. [solo cinese-italiano]
• Zhao Xiuying (a cura di) (2013). “Il dizionario di cinese”. Bologna: Zanichelli.
• Zhang Shihua (a cura di) (2007). “Dizionario di cinese”. Milano: Hoepli.
• Dizionari cinese-inglese consigliati: 中英词典. Lin Yuan (ed.) (2002). “The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary”. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
• Hui Yu (ed.) (2004). “A New Century Chinese-English Dictionary”. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
• Martin Manser (Ed.). “Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary (4th Edition) (English and Chinese Edition)”. Flexibound.

Bibliography

Examination Methods

The final exam consists of a written test containing theoretically-relevant questions (grammar, translation, etc.), a listening test; and an oral test that includes conversation in Mandarin and theory questions. It is necessary to obtain a passing mark in each test in order to pass the exam. Each of the three tests have to be passed during the same exam session: whoever intends or has to retake the exam is allowed to do so by retaking all the three tests of which exam is made of (i.e., writing, oral, listening).
Since attendance to the classes taught by the Chinese mother-tongue teachers is mandatory, the final mark of the exam will also be calculated on the basis of the grades that the student obtains in their assignments.

HSK certificates does not replace this exam, neither in whole nor in part.