B2524 - Written and Oral Communication in Chinese (Second Language) I

Course contents

This course aims at deepen the grammatical topics of Chinese basic grammar and the knowledge of Chinese culture. Specifically, the course will focus on the following grammatical topics:

• The degree complement
  
• The adjective reduplication
  
• The aspect particle le
  
• The adverbs jiu and cai
  
• The adverbs you and zai
  
• The shi...de construction
  
• The aspect particle guo
  
• suiran...danshi
• budan...erqie
  
• yi...jiu
• The resultative complement
  
  

Readings/Bibliography

Masini F., Romagnoli C., Zhang T., Chang Y., Comunicare in cinese, Vol.1, Milano: Hoepli 2021;

Masini F., Romagnoli C., Zhang T. Chang Y., Cumunicare in cinese, Vol.2, Milano: Hoepli 2022;

Paternicò, L.M., Varriano, V., Tian H., Grammatica della lingua cinese, Torino: UTET 202.

Suggested readings:

Abbiati M., Grammatica di cinese moderno, Libreria editrice Cafoscarina, 1998;

Giorgio Casacchia, Bai Yukun, Dizionario cinese - italiano, Libreria editrice Cafoscarina, 2013;

Romagnoli C., Grammatica cinese, Hoepli, 2012;

Zhao Xiuying, Il Dizionario di cinese. Dizionario cinese - italiano italiano - cinese, Zanichelli, 2013

Teaching methods

Interactive frontal lectures with ppt files support.

As concerns the teaching methods of this course unit, all students must attend the online Modules 1, 2 on Health and Safety[https://www.unibo.it/en/services-and-opportunities/health-and-assistance/health-and-safety/online-course-on-health-and-safety-in-study-and-internship-areas].

Assessment methods

Written test (grammatical exercises, and translation of short sentences from Chinese into Italian and viceversa). The written test will last 2 hours and will consist of 5 exercises, to be completed without a dictionary: a wrong answer is equal to 0, an unassigned answer is equal to 0, a correct answer is valued from 2 to 4. The test will be considered passed from 60.

Oral exam (questions about the grammatical and cultural topics studied for the course).

Specifically, the student will be required to:

- read, translate and analyse an excerpt from one of the texts studied and found in Masini et al. Vol. 1 and Vol.2;

-answer a question in Chinese on topics discussed during the course

 

The final mark will be calculated as the average of the marks a student got for the two parts of the exam.

Grading scale

30-30L: excellent performance that demonstrates excellent acquisition of the lexical, grammatical and cultural content proposed in the course; excellent command of the Russian language and culture.

27-29: a good performance, with minor errors compensated by more than sufficient demonstration of knowledge and language skills.

24– 26: valid performance, but with some obvious errors that denote a partial acquisition of the required language knowledge and skills.

21-23: sufficient result but with conspicuous limits in the required knowledge and skills.

18– 20: the performance corresponds to the mininum level of the required knowledge and skills.

<18 insufficient: basic knowledge has not been achieved, the exam must be repeated

Teaching tools

Books, dictionaries and ppt files. The ppt files will be available on the Virtuale e-learning platform.

Office hours

See the website of Serena Zuccheri