Chinese 130 Syllabus: Spring 2012
Students are expected to sign in with the course online as soon as possible at
Chns130 course site is:
http://classes.yale.edu/chns130
First Day Job: Do a Questionnaire at: http://www.quia.com/sv/559663.html
General Information on Course
Chinese 140 is a continuation of Chinese 110/120 for true beginners at the intermediate level. Enrollment is screened to exclude those students who have already acquired oral fluency through ways other than from the elementary college course. Those students are advised to take Chinese 133.
Chinese 140 meets for 5 days a week, 50 minutes per session. Students are expected to spend 1-1.5 hours every day, besides the class time, preparing for class, reviewing for tests, and doing homework. Class enrollment is limited to maximum 14 students. Instructional language is exclusively Chinese, except those situations where students are doing bilingual translation or where a grammatical point needs to be explained in English. Students are expected to speak in Chinese during class time. In class activities include drills, quizzes, organized oral exercises such as making dialogs, presenting a narrative, or performing a skit, and short grammar lectures.
Chinese 140 helps students reinforce what they have acquired in the elementary course and continue to expand their skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, by studying a variety of texts covering different aspects of daily life, simple academic subjects, cultural settings, and limited written expressions. Finishing the course, students are to be able to communicate more comfortably and confidently with native speakers of Chinese on simple daily and academic subjects and to have acquired a solid reading and writing knowledge to get ready for studying semi-authentic and authentic Chinese texts at advanced levels.
Textbooks:
1. David and Helen in China (I) (Phyllis Zhang) ($89 for 2 volumes, Available at Yale Bookstore, 776-3431)
2. Listening and Speaking Chinese (Free. Available on the web only)
3. Written Assignments Downloadable from course website (Free)
http://classes.yale.edu/chns130/downlable/downloadable.html
Teaching Staff: Ling Mu Office: Room. 100, 434 Temple St; Phone 2-2942; ling.mu@yale.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday: 1:30-2:30 or by appointment; Phone: 2-2942; Home: 234-2908
Ninghui Liang, Thursday: 1:30-2:30£¬Office: Rm 202, 434 Temple St; ninghui.liang@yale.edu
Class Hours & Rooms:
Section 1: 9:25-10:15 (Room 100, 220 York St)
Section 2: 10:30-11:20 (Room 100, 220 York St)
Section 3: 10:30-11:20 (Room 004, 220 York St)
Section 4: 11:35-12:25 (Room 100, 220 York St)
Class Schedules: To be announced in class and on course web site http://classes.yale.edu/chns130
Textbooks and Activities:
1. What we do with David and Helen in China. We will spend roughly 4 hours on a lesson.
¡¤ Pre-class quiz: Students are expected to prepare for new words with the vocab. List, listen to the text, and read the text. The Quiz will be multiple choice questions over the vocabulary and the content of the text.
¡¤ Listening and Reading comprehension exercise after class
¡¤ Grammar and structures and drills on words and patterns
¡¤ Oral practice with a TA every week, answer questions of a new lesson and speaking practice
¡¤ Dictation after finishing a lesson, in forms of sentences
¡¤ Written Assignment: One essay written assignment for each lesson.
¡¤ Weekly Reading-Aloud and Recording Assignment, outside of class
2. Listening and Speaking Chinese, with multimedia tools: (Roughly 2 hours/lesson)
This is an online textbook (http://classes.yale.edu/chns130/WebBook/index.html ) developed as supplementary materials for listening and speaking skills, with topics on Chinese culture and society. The texts will not be provided until students have handed in a pre-class exercise. We will use the textbook according to the following steps:
Audio: All audio files for David and Helen in China are on line. You can download to a device like iPod. (http://classes.yale.edu/chns130/Listening/index.html)
Attendance requirement:
¡¤ Attendance: Chinese 130 is a highly intensive course. Good attendance is expected from all students. However, a student is allowed to use up to 3 hours of un-excused absence in the semester (but you still need to find a way to hand in all the assigned work when due). Excessive absence (7 accumulated hours, including the allowed 3) will lead to an automatic drop from the course, by Yale College and the Department policy. (This will be strictly enforced). We do allow additional absence without penalty for special situations (such as being seriously ill). You should email your instructor BEFORE an excused absence.
¡¤ You cannot earn an
¡°A¡± range grade if missing unexcused more than 3 classes (Including the 3 times allowed)
¡°B¡± range grade if missing unexcused more than 5 classes (Including the 3 times allowed)
No grade and no credit if missing more than 7 times.
Weekly Individual Tutorial Sessions a TA (Location: Temple St. CLS basement Study):
Required weekly meeting with TAs, 25-30 minutes, on assignments provided. (http://classes.yale.edu/chns130/taTutorial/index.html) For examples, students will practice pronunciation, reading-aloud, answer questions related to a theme or topic, or free conversation.
Homework, Assignments, Quizzes, Tests, and Examinations:
Students are required to hand in homework and take all dictation quizzes, tests, and exams as scheduled. For major exams only, unless having a dean's excuse, all make-ups will be lowed 3 points if taken within two days or 10 points within a week. A make-up should be done as soon as the student is available for class. Assignment and exercises required due before class will not be accepted after class. For the semester, there will be the following assignments and tests:
¡¤ For D&H
¨¹ Pre-class quizzes
¨¹ 9 Listening Comprehension on quia
¨¹ 9 Reading Comprehension on quia
¨¹ 9 written assignments
¨¹ 9 dictations (1 for each lesson)
¨¹ Vocabulary quizzes on quia
¨¹ 3 written tests (1 for every 2 lessons)
¨¹ 1 Final Exam
¡¤ For L&S:
¨¹ 9 pre-class quizzes (Exercise B in the book)
¨¹ 3 oral tests (1 for every 3 lessons)
For the semester: Weekly tutorials and Weekly Reading-Recording Projects
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Evaluation methods:
¡¤ Attendance 7%
¡¤ Pre-class Quizzes 6% (Pre-class quizzes for D&H 4%; L&S Listening Ex.B on quia 2% )
¡¤ Dictation 9%
¡¤ Homework on quia 12% D&H Listening 4%; Reading 4%; Vocab. 4%
¡¤ Online dictation 4% (9 assignments)
¡¤ Term end Skits 2%
¡¤ Written assignment 10% (Essay compositions)
¡¤ Individual Tutorials 5% with TA
¡¤ Oral tests 15% (3 oral tests)
¡¤ Written tests 15% (3 written tests)
¡¤ Final exam 15%