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CHI-90003 - Module Specification
Language Centre
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 24 April 2024

CHI-90003 - Chinese 3
Coordinator: Emily Ouyang Room: CBB1.006 Tel: +44 1782 7 33288
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Level: Level 4
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733960

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

Chinese 2 or equivalent (e.g. CEFR A1.1)



Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

This module will further develop the students' Chinese language communication skills, enabling them to write, speak, listen, read and carry out simple and routine tasks they are likely to encounter while socialising, living, studying or travelling in China. Functions and topics such as describing locations and asking for, and giving directions, talking about types of transport and writing about travel plans, asking and answering questions about sports and describing their recreational activities, talking about preferences for holiday plans and responding to an online chat message. Students will also become familiar with some aspects of cultural specific behaviour.

Aims
This module aims to develop and consolidate Chinese language skills acquired in Chinese 2, as well as an understanding of Chinese life and culture.
To develop and reflect upon strategies for successful language learning.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Recognise and understand familiar words, and basic sentences related to areas of immediate relevance (e.g. personal information) when people speak slowly and clearly: 1,3
Read and extract key information from short, simple sentences and texts written in Chinese characters, and translate them to English: 1,2
Interact in very simple, familiar situations, asking and answering simple questions in areas of immediate need, provided the other person talks slowly and clearly: 3
Write simple sentences and texts providing personal information in Chinese: 1,2
Understand and use simple grammatical structures and rules and compare them to English: 1,2,3
Recognise and act upon very basic cultural differences as encountered in everyday situations and demonstrate knowledge of common traditions in China: 1,2,3

Study hours

22 hours of contact time in class.
40 hours assessment preparation and completion.
88 hours guided independent study.

School Rules

Admission to the module must be confirmed through completion of a language level self-assessment form
Students are only permitted to take one Chinese language module per semester.

Description of Module Assessment

1: Online Tasks weighted 30%
Online tasks.
Students will complete a series of online exercises to assess their reading comprehension, grammar and writing skills in the target language.

2: Class Test weighted 20%
Class test.
Students will complete an in-class test which may include writing a short text in the target language in class.

3: Oral Exam weighted 50%
Spoken interaction assessment
A 8-12 minute spoken interaction assessment to test speaking (productive), listening (receptive) and conversation (interaction) skills. Task may include presentation, role play, description or similar and question and answer. If assessments are organised in pairs or groups, individual marks will be awarded to each student.

Please note that for the 2022/23 Academic Year programmes may be adapted to operate in accordance with a flexible, digital approach. This means that there may be some changes made to how modules are delivered and assessed. The latest information will be provided to you by your School in module handbooks. We endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes and details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/student-terms-and-conditions/

Last Updated: 24 April 2024