Course level

Undergraduate

Faculty

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

School

Languages & Cultures School

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Delivery mode

External

Class hours

Prerequisite

CHIN3210 or equivalent

Assessment methods

Reflective essay 25%, Field report 35%, Contrastive analysis 40%

Course enquiries

Study Abroad

This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.

Course description

This course focuses on contrastive analysis of morphological, syntactic, discourse, pragmatic and cognitive aspects of Chinese and English. It also analyses errors in Chinese interlanguage produced by English speaking learners and explores pedagogical approaches to effectively teach Chinese vocabulary and grammar to native English speakers. The purpose of this course is to raise awareness of potential difficult areas for English speaking learners in their learning of Chinese as a second language.

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2020 (03/08/2020 - 21/11/2020) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2019 (22/07/2019 - 16/11/2019) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2018 (23/07/2018 - 17/11/2018) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2017 (24/07/2017 - 18/11/2017) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2016 (25/07/2016 - 19/11/2016) St Lucia Internal Course Profile