CHINESE LANGUAGE 2 MOD.1
| Official course title | LINGUA CINESE 2 MOD. 1 |
| Academic Year | 2011/2012 |
| Course code | LT503I |
| University credits | 6 of 12 of LINGUA CINESE 2 |
| Degree level | First Cycle Degree M.D.270 |
| Educational sector code | L-OR/21 |
| Semester/trimester | I Semestre |
| Course year | 2 |
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Degree Programmes and curricula
Other parts of the course
Contents
Educational Goals
The course aims to help students acquire a better knowledge of some grammatical and morpho-syntactic structures and lexical peculiarities of modern Chinese language, as well as to improve students' oral and written communication skills, developing also their competence in interethnic and interlinguistic comparison.
Requirements
In order to be admitted to the exam, the students are required to have successfully passed Chinese Language 1. The exam is propaedeutic to Chinese Language 3.
Contents
Among the grammatical topics, particular attention will be dedicated to prepositions, adverbs, connectors, resultative, directional and potential complements. The peculiarities of these grammatical and syntactic structures will be defined in their real linguistic context through translation exercises. In-class conversation will improve the students’ communication skills, as well as stimulate them to reflect and discuss the major features of Chinese and Western society and culture.
Recommended Reading List
Bibliography:
Abbiati Magda, GRAMMATICA DI CINESE MODERNO, Cafoscarina, Venezia 1993 e succ.
Li Xuemei, BUONGIORNO CINA. CORSO COMUNICATIVO DI LINGUA CINESE, vol. II, parte 1 e parte 2, Cafoscarina, Venezia 2005.
Supplementary material in Chinese will be available during the course.
Suggested Dictionaries:
Casacchia G. and Bai Yukun, GRANDE DIZIONARIO CINESE-ITALIANO, ISIAO, 2009
or:
CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY, Shanghai Jiaotong daxue chubanshe, 2 vols., Shanghai 1997 e succ.
or:
XIN SHIJI HANYING DA CIDIAN, A NEW CENTURY CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing, 2003.
Assessment
written and oral
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons and language exercises.
Teaching Language
Italian and Chinese.
Other information
The present course is considered together with the course of the second semester.
The exam will be therefore at the end of the second semester.
The first part of the exam is made of a grammatical test: the students who pass the test can proceed to the oral examinations (grammar and conversation).
