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Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese (N)
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| Teaching Materials |
- Essays and short stories written by contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese writers.
- Newspaper reports
- Broadcast news
- TV dramas
Course Objectives
This course aims at enhancing students' reading, speaking, and writing skills through a wide range of reading materials of different genres and styles. It also provides students with strategies to increase their comprehension of Chinese news broadcasts. |
| Listening: |
- Understand news broadcasts on topics including politics, finance and the economy, disasters, and so on.
- Understand the main ideas of most semi-formal speech
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| Speaking: |
- Employ common four-character idioms in their speech.
- Paraphrase or explain difficult sentences in Chinese.
- Sustain conversations on various topics of general interest with fluency, accuracy, and approporateness.
- Support opinions using native-like discourse strategies.
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| Reading: |
- Understand characteristics of different styles of writing.
- Understand the main points of essays that contain unfamiliar expressions and complex structures.
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| Writing: |
- Write cohesive simple summaries.
- Write essays describing people or places using sophisticated expressions.
- Write essays narrating events using sophisticated expression and proper connectives.
- write essays developing opinions in a well-organized manner.
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Course Requirements
- regular and punctual attendance
- active participation in class
- weekly writing assignment based on materials covered in class
- midterm essay
- oral presentations
- written and oral exams
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