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ME33MN: MANDARIN CHINESE FOR BEGINNERS 1 (2022-2023)

Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19


Course Overview

This course aims to familiarize students with the basics of spoken and written forms of Mandarin Chinese. Emphasis will be placed first on speaking and listening, particularly pronunciation and tones. The written form will be presented first through the medium of pinyin and gradually students will be introduced to a small number of the highest frequency characters. The emphasis will be on dialogue and role play. It covers a good deal of ground in the four class hours a week and requires considerable effort and self-study to consolidate new vocabulary, grammar and Chinese characters.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Lindsay Sullivan

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Undergraduate Programme
  • Medicine (ME)
  • Either Programme Level 3 or Programme Level 4

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course aims to familiarize students with the basics of spoken and written forms of Mandarin Chinese. Emphasis will be placed first on speaking and listening, particularly pronunciation and tones. The written form will be presented first through the medium of pinyin and gradually students will be introduced to a small number of the highest frequency characters. The emphasis will be on dialogue and role play. It covers a good deal of ground in the four class hours a week and requires considerable effort and self-study to consolidate new vocabulary, grammar and Chinese characters.  

The core textbook is:

Modern Mandarin Chinese:The Routledge Course Textbook Level 1, Claudia Ross, Baozhang He, Pei-Chia Chen, Meng Yeh. 2nd edition published 2019.

ISBN: 978-1-138-10110-4 (pbk)


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Class Test

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 20
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Learning Outcomes
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Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
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Reflective Journal

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Listening Test

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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

Written Paper

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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Learning Outcomes
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
FactualRememberTo remember the vocabulary of the first seven chapters of Modern Mandarin Chinese: The Routledge Course (MMC).
FactualUnderstandTo understand the grammar of the first seven chapters of MMC.
ProceduralCreateTo create short written and spoken dialogues based on the material covered in the first seven chapters of MMC.
ReflectionEvaluateTo reflect on the process of learning Mandarin Chinese by producing a reflective journal.

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