Unit Chinese Language

Course
International relations
Study-unit Code
A001735
Curriculum
Migration, globalisation and world governance
Teacher
Raissa De Gruttola
Teachers
  • Raissa De Gruttola
Hours
  • 54 ore - Raissa De Gruttola
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Linguistico
Academic discipline
L-OR/21
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
(see below: Extended Course Program)
Reference texts
Compulsory:
ABBIATI, Magda (1998). Grammatica di Cinese Moderno. Venezia: Cafoscarina.
LI XUEMEI (2005). Buongiorno Cina! Corso comunicativo di lingua cinese. Volumes I/1 and I/2. Venezia: Cafoscarina. From lesson 13 to lesson 28.
ROMAGNOLI, Chiara; JING, Wang. Grammatica d'Uso della Lingua Cinese. Milano: Hoepli.
LIOI, Tiziana; DE BENEDITTIS, Andrea; MASINI, Federico (a cura di). Introduzione alla scrittura cinese. I radicali e i caratteri cinesi dei livelli 1 e 2 dell'esame HSK. Milano: Hoepli.
More equipment will be given by the Professor during the classes and both in paper or digital format; it will be uploaded on UniStudium.

Recommended:
PLECO – Free app for iPhone, iPad, Android
WENLIN –Software for Learning Chinese, Wenlin Institute (www.wenlin.com)
Martin Manser (Ed.). Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary (4th Edition) (English and Chinese Edition). Flexibound.
Educational objectives
Basic knowledge of Mandarin Chinese linguistics, and (oral and written) composition of simple sentences (HSK level 3: B1).
Prerequisites
Students can take second year Mandarin Chinese exam after they pass first year's one.
Teaching methods
Standard classes at Dipartimento (Palazzo S. Bernardo) plus classes taught by native Mandarin Chinese teachers at CLA.
Other information
Erasmus students do not need to take "Chinese 2" exam, provided that the Commission in charge puts an equivalent exam in the learning agreement (replacing Chinese 2 exam).
The validity of the results of the written and oral exam at CLA is given by the CLA guidelines.
Learning verification modality
CLA EXAM (before exam at Dipartimento)

- WRITTEN TEST (¿¿)
DICTATION (20 minutes)
Pinyin dictation: transcribe 15 words into pinyin with tones (bisyllabic words not necessarily explained in class);
Sentences dictation: transcribe 15 sentences into Chinese characters (sentences used during class and in the book).
Each word or sentence is 1 mark. The test is passed with 9/15 in each section. Final mark is maximum 30.

RADICALS AND STROKE ORDER (30 minutes):
Identify radicals and stroke order of 15 characters. Each character is 2 marks on 30. The test is passed with 18/30.

COMPOSITION (1 hour): students have to write 15 sentences using 15 different given group words or fixed expressions (e.g.: a sentence containing ¿¿…¿¿…; a sentence containing ¿…¿…; etc.). Paper or electronic dictionaries are not allowed. This section is passed with 18/30.
All the three sections must be passed in the same day.
The average mark between the two sections is the CLA mark.

- ORAL TEST (¿¿)
Students will randomly pick two units of "Buongiorno Cina" among those included in the program (even if it was not explained in class), then read the text of the unit without being helped by pinyin, close the book and summarize it in Mandarin Chinese, then discuss about the topic with the native teacher.

The CLA mark validity is decided by the CLA guidelines.


Students who only need a certification or “idoneità” will take both written and oral test at CLA.

NB: if the test is totally o partially online, some modalities could change accordingly.


DIPARTIMENTO EXAM
- WRITTEN TEST (¿¿)
GRAMMAR AND TRANSLATION (30 minutes)
GRAMMAR (30 minutes)
Various questions (fill in the blanks, sentence building, linguistics questions) syntactic analysis, translation of sentences from and into Chinese. Dictionary is not allowed.

Sentences and characters are in the grammar slide deck and in the book.

The mark is out of 30. The minimum is 18/30.



TRANSLATION (1 hour)
Translation of a short text from Chinese to Italian.
Only the use of the paper dictionary is allowed.
The final mark is out of 30.

The Dipartimento mark at written tests is the average between the two sections.
Once the written test is passed, the oral test can be taken only in the same day.


NB. If exams will be online, the test will be online. The test must be passed before taking the oral test.

- ORAL TEST (¿¿)
Discussion on Chinese language, grammar, analysis and translation of sentences (already analyzed or new), examples. Random picking of one or more texts used during class: reading, analysis, and translation.
The mark is out of 30 and forms the average with the written part mark.


The final mark of the exam is the average mark of all the other sections.


If the oral in Dipartimento is not passed, the student has to repeat also the written test.


** Chinese students will only have the exam at Dipartimento: translation and oral test (no grammar section).
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NB: if the test is totally o partially online, some modalities could change accordingly.



To obtain only 6 CFU, the oral test duration will be reduced.



NB:
The exam is considered passed ONLY when the student passed every part of it.
•BOOKING THE EXAM IS COMPULSORY, STUDENTS WHO DID NOT BOOK THE EXAM WILL NOT BE TESTED.
•Please, check the official schedule issued by Dipartimento Lettere-Lingue and CLA
Extended program
The course aims at providing students with knowledge of Mandarin Chinese language and Mandarin Chinese linguistic environment in contemporary China (B1 level of the Common European Framework - HSK level 3 ¿¿¿¿¿¿.)
•CLASSES WITH MANDARIN CHINESE PROFESSOR (Dipartimento)
- grammar: middle-complex syntactic structures typical of modern Mandarin Chinese and in-depth studies;
- translation of short texts;
•CLASSES WITH NATIVE MANDARIN TEACHER (CLA)
- Buongiorno Cina I/1: every lesson from lesson 17 to 20; II/1: lessons 21 to 32;
- vocabulary and fixed expressions expansion.
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