The course intends to enhance the student's understanding of advanced grammatical and syntactic structures in Chinese by examining a variety of texts, fostering interpretative and expository abilities.

1. Verbal aspect

2. Verbal complements (resultative complement, potential complement, simple and complex directional complement)
3. Passive and comparative 
4. reading and analysis of Chinese language texts on themes of Chinese cultural traditions

5. Learning how to use Chinese dictionary

The Chinese language exams require completion of each preceding year: the 2nd year test follows the 1st year, and the 3rd year test follows both the 1st and 2nd year exams (more details in vademecum).

Knowledge and understanding: students will acquire a good understanding of the aspects of Chinese linguistics, such as Chinese written, phonological, morphosyntactic elements elements.

Applying knowledge and understanding: students will have the abilities to use foreign language knowledge in real-world context, they will be able to acquire methalinguitic competences to decribe and analyse communicative aspecs and written texts.

Making judgements: students will acquire the critical ability to judge their language production with regard to linguistic and pragmatic appropriateness.

 Communication skills: students will be able to communicate using Chinese at intermediate level. Students will reach B1 Chinese language profinciency level.  

Learning skills:  students will possess the methodological skills to  develop and consolidate their learning experiences in autonomous and collaborative way.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

The course also includes reading, composition, listening and speaking activities with a native speaker. Attendance strongly recommended.

Teaching

Teaching methods include face-to-face lectures, exercise sessions, seminars. The course will include teaching practice lessons held by a mother tongue lecturer. Reading, writing and practice in conversation lessons will be conducted by Chinese lectors. The attendance to these lessons is highly recommended.

Innovative teaching methods

Teaching instruction will inlcude multimedia resources (video, audio, online learning app).

Attendance

The attendance to lessons is highly recommended.Students who are unable to attend classes are required to contact the lecturer at the beginning of the semester

Course books

 Masini Federico, Romagnoli Chiara, Tongbing Zhang, Yafang Chang, Comunicare In Cinese Vol.2, Hoepli 2022

Recommended textbooks

Abbiati M., Grammatica di cinese moderno, Cafoscarina, Venezia, 1998.
Biasco M., Mao Wen, Banfi E., Introduzione allo studio della lingua cinese, Roma, Carocci, 2003
Chinese-English Dictionary, Beijing, Foreign Teaching and Research Press, 1998

Xiuying Zhao, Il dizionario di Cinese. Dizionario Cinese-Italiano Italiano-Cinese. 2013. Zanichelli.

Assessment

Assessment methods are oral exams and written tests.  Italian-Chinese, English-Chinese or Monolingual dictionary is allowed. 

Assessment methods are oral exams and written tests. 

Learning outcomes will be assessed through three tests:

- a written test

- an oral test relating to the monographic course, to be taken with the Italian teacher;

- an oral skills test (oral language assessment + listening/dictation), to be taken with the mother-tongue teacher.

The final exam grade corresponds to the average of the three partial tests.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Students are requested to contact the teacher by email.

Course books

Masini Federico, Romagnoli Chiara, Tongbing Zhang, Yafang Chang, Comunicare In Cinese Vol.2, Hoepli 2022

Recommended textbooks

Abbiati M., Grammatica di cinese moderno, Cafoscarina, Venezia, 1998.
Biasco M., Mao Wen, Banfi E., Introduzione allo studio della lingua cinese, Roma, Carocci, 2003
Chinese-English Dictionary, Beijing, Foreign Teaching and Research Press, 1998

Assessment

Assessment methods are oral exams and written tests.  Italia-Chinese, English-Chinese or Monolingual dictionary is allowed. 

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.