Chinese

This tutorial course is directed towards those who are enrolled in the Pre-Advanced Chinese, Advanced Low Chinese and Advanced Mid Chinese course levels of the General Chinese Language Course. It aims to help students learn commonly-used new vocabulary and grammar that are not often used in daily conversations. Students will be able to use appropriate Chinese language to carry on discussions and understand commonly-used writings and articles. By the end of this course, students are expected to be capable of giving an oral presentation and writing a short essay on common societal topics, such as climate, history, culture, politics and economics, sports and entertainments, tourism, etc. Students are expected to be capable of understanding and writing articles, advertisements and leaflets.

This course is directed towards those who have taken Pre-Advanced Chinese II of the NTU Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for 450-500 hours (6hrs/week). This course uses the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese IV (chapter 1~ chapter 7) to help students develop proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing that would enable them to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Students will learn commonly-used new vocabularies and grammar that are not often used in daily conversations. Students will be able to use appropriate Chinese language to carry on discussions and further understand Taiwanese language and culture as they progress through the course.

This course is for foreign students with no previous knowledge of Chinese. It covers four main areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing which require pinyin-word processing and actual writing of Chinese characters. The pinyin-word processing is emphasized for this course to enable students to break the restrictions of the number of characters they can actually write and allow them to communicate in Chinese soon. The course is at first conducted in English and gradually adds Chinese as students' vocabulary increases. Students master the Pinyin system and frequently used sentence structures and expressions. 

ADVANCED JOURNAL 2

This course is intended to give a panoramic view of contemporary China. The topics are restricted to different aspects of the status-quo of China, including people and nationalities, food and cuisines, languages and dialects, festivals and traditions, marriage and family, leisure and entertainment, arts and sports, traffic and transport, travel and world heritage, natural resources and environment protection, mass media and publication, education and research, politics and government, religions and beliefs, information technology and internet, cities and countryside. Each topic is framed into 10 to 15 questions and presented in an easily accessible way with statistic figures, stories, pictures and video clips from different sources in order to ensure objectivity. The aim of the course is to offer a panoramic view of contemporary China in the selected aspects and help understand the variety and diversity of contemporary Chinese society.

Chinese literature has a long history, from literature created by literati to folk literature created and passed down orally by common people. After folk literature is collected, recorded, and then disseminated, it may also be re-created. This course utilizes myths, legends, stories, songs and other texts in folk literature as well as related folk customs to foster appreciation for folk literature; understand its origins and changes and explore its emotions and thoughts as well as its relationship with social culture.  

This course selects different aspects to objectively and truly show contemporary China to achieve two purposes. First, help international students understand and understand contemporary China, understand the cultural traditions and daily life of the Chinese people, understand China's political laws and governance methods, and cultivate international youth who are familiar with China and friendly to China. Second, understand the diversity and differences of Chinese society, understand the challenges faced by China in the process of modernization, and enhance a deep understanding of China.
This course has about 30 topics, including population and ethnicity, food and cuisine, language and dialects, festivals and traditions, marriage and family, leisure and entertainment, art and sports, transportation and transportation, tourism and world heritage, natural resources and environmental protection, media and publishing, education and research, politics and government, religion With faith, information technology and the Internet, cities and villages, etc.

When teaching, the teaching content is determined according to the topics that students are interested in and one topic per week. The choice of teaching content strives to be objective and comprehensive, and the selection of data comes from different aspects. Teachers do not make too many value judgments to help students form a correct understanding of China. The basic principle of teaching is to look at the world from the perspective of China and China from the perspective of the world. Through comparative analysis, we can find commonalities and personalities, questions of universal significance and answers with Chinese characteristics.
Each topic will be divided into several questions, leading the teaching content with questions, and looking for the answers to the questions and the enlightenment of these questions to Chinese society through introduction and sorting out. Taking the topic of "Population and Ethnicity" as an example, the topic will be divided into ten issues: population size, population density, aging population and aging society, child mortality rate, birth rate, life expectancy, surname, number of ethnic groups, ethnic population and regional autonomy. One is to examine the current situation, and the other is to show the past from a historical perspective. The profound changes in China in the past century include the increase in population and life expectancy, the decline in child mortality, the policy of regional ethnic autonomy in New China, etc., and examine the challenges posed by the aging society to Chinese society.
This course adopts self-edited textbooks, especially highlighting the characteristics of modern education technology. It pays attention to the fragmentation, materialization, visualization and narrativeization of knowledge points. It uses pictures, short videos, stories and other forms to present contemporary China in three dimensions, guides students to think deeply about different aspects of contemporary Chinese society, and deepens contemporary China. The understanding and recognition of the Chinese people, the Communist Party of China and China's governance model.

INTERMEDIATE SPOKEN CHINESE

This course integrates professional topics with listening and speaking skills. The professional topics encompass various areas such as philosophy, literature, economics, politics, society, history, medicine, natural sciences, engineering, arts, and more. The training in listening, speaking, and viewing skills related to these professional topics includes note- taking, inference, and a series of listening micro-skills, as well as expressing opinions, explaining charts, and other presentation micro-skills. Through listening and speaking exercises in an academic context, students will enhance their academic Chinese language proficiency.

After taking this course, students will be

Mastering Academic Vocabulary and Sentence Structures in Fields Such as Humanities, Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Chinese.

Enhancing Comprehension Skills in Listening to Academic Lectures in Chinese.

Improving Proficiency in Expressing Academic Presentations and Engaging in Academic Discussions in Chinese.

Fostering the Desire of International Students to Integrate into Their Respective Disciplines and Engage in Academic Learning and Research.

Cultivating Overall Academic Learning and Research Competencies in International Students.