CHIN 202               3 Credit Hours

Chinese Grammar and Translation II

This information is for second semester 2017/2018 academic year

Teacher responsible

Mrs. Huang Lijian

Availability

This course is available open to all visiting students but only as a second semester course.

Course Content

This course builds on the content of CHIN201. It will develop the skills of reading and writing in Chinese in a range of predictable situations; familiarize students with a wider range of simple grammar structures. Through the exploration of Chinese culture, students will broaden their understanding of Chinese society and daily life. This course also involves the translation of simple passages taken from varied sources including business, literary and newspaper texts with the view to expanding student’s vocabulary. Through the translation exercises, students will learn the main skills of translating from English into Chinese and vice versa.

Teaching

Tuesday, 07:30am – 09:20am for 12 weeks

Presentation of the topics takes the form of a lecture and discussion on set topics. Students are required to read course materials before the class session it is assigned for. The Lecturer will not repeat the reading; usually, lectures will involve illustrating selected points by working through pieces of data. Students are expected to come prepared to discuss, with their questions that arise out of the reading.

Formative Coursework

Students are expected to work a minimum of one and half hours every day. Routine preparation includes writing characters, studying the vocabulary, patterns and texts, reading grammar notes. Homework assignment includes character exercises, grammar exercises, translation exercises and essays. A vocabulary quiz is given through each lesson.

Indicative reading

Liu, Xun. (2006). New Practical Chinese Reader Text book 2 & Exercise book 2. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press.

Liu, Yun & Shi, Peizhi. (2013). New HSK vocabulary (Level 1, 2, 3). Beijing: Peking University Press.

Zhang, Jing. (2008). Practicing HSK Grammar (Level 3). Beijing: Sinolingua.

Dictionary

The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (Chinese-English Edition). (2002). Beijing: Foreigh Language Teaching and Research Press.

Online Dictionaries

Baidu Cidian 百度词典:         http://dict.baidu.com/

Chinese dictionary, good for example sentences which are translated to English

Haici 海词:  http://dict.cn/

Good for examples and usage, includes ‘Instand Grammar Checker’ to improve your writing.

MandarinSpot:  http://mandarinspot.com/

Chinese-English/English-Chinese dictionary designed to help students in their study of Chinese language and reading Chinese online. Here you can add Mandarin pronunciation to any Chinese text as either Hanyu Pinyin, often called simply Pinyin, Zhuyin Fuhao also known as Bopomofo or other, less known Chinese phonetic systems. You can use both Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters as long as you don't mix them inside one word.  Paste in Chinese text to get character-by-character Pinyin.

Yellowbridge dictionary:        https://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/dictionary.php

Mandarin – English character dictionary with animation of the stroke order

Recommended Websites
http://english.cctv.com/

http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp

http://www.digitaldialects.com/Chinese.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIWFv4mkJGE (Happy Chinese)

Assessment and Grading

Evaluation will be based on a continued assessment which will constitute 30% and a final end of semester examination which will constitute 70%.

Grading Scale: