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Instructor: Jianhua Bai bai@kenyon.edu (ASC 112, 427-5530)
Office Hours: 11:00-12:00, 2-4:00 M. W. and by appointment
Schedule: 9:10-10:00 (M.W.), 9:40--10:45 (T.Th.), ASC 126
AT Classes
Required Texts:
Integrated Chinese, Level 1, Part 1 (IC) by Liu, Yao et al.
Integrated Chinese Workbook, (ICW) Level 1, Part 1
Integrated Chinese Character Workbook, (ICCW) Level 1, Part 1
Access the audio files
http://kenyon.libguides.com/er.php?course_id=44951
In the search box on the front page, type in Bai, and click on the course number: KEN-CHNS111Y. Enter the password.
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Useful Links:
http://www.archchinese.com/chinese_english_dictionary.html
http://www.eon.com.hk/estroke/
Click here to go to a web site to use flashcards to practice characters.
Click here to do more exercises.
Click here for another web site to practice sounds and tones.
Click here for a vocabulary exercise
2. Practice
A foreign language is acquired only as a consequence of using that language. The purpose of
the practice classes is to build each week's new material into an increasingly versatile proficiency. Practice
is the most important activity in this course. Every minute is valuable to you. Every class meeting contributes,
cumulatively, to the attainment of your personal objective.
To practice means to interact with all others in the class. Therefore active participation in
the practice class activities is essential for our success in this course. In addition to the practice classes
you will also have regular home assignment, either paper-pencil or on the computer.
3. Homework
You should start on the writing of characters late Monday and submit the completed character workbook on Thursdays. Start the rest of the sections of the workbooks by Tuesday and turn them in during class on Mondays. Homework submitted late will earn no credits.
4. Evaluation
Evaluation provides each student multiple opportunities to demonstrate incremental skill development
over discrete segments of material. It provides feedback for both teaching and learning. Each weekly evaluation
is cumulative, including all previous material plus the most recent week's new material.
Assignments and Evaluation
The final letter grade assigned represents the judgement of the following aspects:
1. Weekly evaluations 55%.
---the weekly quiz=15 points (listening, speaking, reading and writing)
---class participation=20 points (3.5 points for each day, 2 points for each AT class)
---assignments=20 points (Characters 5 (due Thur.), Listening 5,
Reading, 5 and Writing 5, due every Monday. Late work will be corrected, but will earn no credits.)
2. Two examinations: Mid-term (10/10) 20%; Final (6:30-8:30 pm, Dec.19) 25%.
Each examination will consists of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The following is a description of how the numbers convert to letter grade: A (95-100), A- (90-94.9), B+ (86-89.9), : B (82-85.9), B- (78-81.9), C+ (
75-77.9) C (72 -74.9) C- (68 -71.9), D+ (65 - 67.9), D (62-64.9), D- (60-61.9), F (0-59.9)
The criterion for evaluating your speaking performance is to see how well you can accomplish the specified communicative tasks that require the following. 1) Good pronunciation and intonation (a good way for preparing for this is to listen to the tapes in addition to participating in the AT classes). 2) Correct use of vocabulary and grammatical patterns (A good technique is to practice the patterns with a classmate and correct each other whenever necessary). It is easy to read and understand the explanation in the text, but UNDERSTANDING the notes cannot ensure your accurate USE of the vocabulary and grammatical patterns). 3) Fluency, which does not equal speed; a fluent conversation should be natural, interactive and meaningful. 4) Quantity, which means you should always try and use as many as you can of the words and grammatical patterns we have learned so far.
Guidelines for Preparing the Reading and Writing Evaluation
The criterion for evaluating your reading and writing is to see how well you can recognize the learned characters and how well you can use them in writing to communicate. Some of the test items will include 1) a dictation, 2) using words in your own sentences, 3) complete unfinished sentences, 4) put words into correct and meaningful orders, 5) read a passage and answer questions about the passage, 6) the formats that you find from the IC Workbook.
Some of the useful learning techniques include 1) the use of flash cards. 2) Semantic map, putting semantically
similar words together on one page for effective memorization. For instance you can put words about family together.
3) Learning to relate to the parts of the new words to the parts of words that you already know. 4) Reading and
listening repeatedly to the lessons. 5) Sentence Anagram: taking the sentence apart into different phrases and
put the parts back together into meaningful sentences. 6) Talking to yourself such as composing interesting
dialogue that systematically recycle the words that you have learned.
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Dates | During-class Activities | Post-class Tasks |
8/30 | Intro. to the course Chinese sounds and tones and learn to say "hi." |
Read IC pp1-17 |
9/3 | Sounds and tones Practice |
Start ICW (workbook) |
9/4 | Sounds and tones Practice Integrated Chinese (IC) 1 |
Practice writing of characters of IC1 and do listening, reading and writing exercises of ICW. |
9/5 | More practice of tones and sounds Learn to greet each other and describe oneself. Introduction to the writing system and more speaking practice. |
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9/6 | Review Review and a trial speaking quiz. |
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9/7 | Review of IC 1: greeting, names, nationalities, saying good bye, etc. Review and a trial written quiz. |
Complete workbook (due Monday). |
Date | During-class Activities | Post-class Assignments |
9/10 | The first half of IC 2: talking about families. |
Character practice (first half) of ICCW (IC2), Study and learn the new words. |
9/11 | Review of the first part of IC 2: talking about family members |
Reading and writing exercises of Part One of ICW. Study IC2 and come to class with questions if you have any |
9/12 | Talking about Families: pattern drills, vocabulary exercises and role play. Recycle/practice IC 2 |
Reading and writing exercises of Part Two of ICW. |
9/13 | No Class today (made up Friday 9/7) |
Review of IC 2 Listen to the dialogues untill you can understand the dialogue without looking at the book.
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Date | During-class Activities | Post-class Assignments |
9/17 | Review of IC 2: greeting, names, nationalities, family, etc. a written quiz (Lessons 1 and 2) |
Character practice, first half of ICCW Study and learn the new words. |
9/18 | First half of IC 3: "Inviting someone out for dinner."
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Reading and writing exercises of Part One of ICW. Character practice, second half of ICCW. |
9/19 | Review of the first part of IC 3 |
Reading and writing exercises of Part Two of ICW. |
9/20 | A role play that integrates IC1-3 Recycle/practice IC 3
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Review of IC 3 Listen to the text untill you can understand the dialogue without looking at the book. |
Date | During-class Activities | Post-class Assignments |
9/24 | Review of IC 3: greeting, nationalities, family, telling times, inviting etc. Comprehensive review and a speaking quiz |
Character practice, first half of ICCW Practice the first dialogue. |
9/25 | First half of IC 4: "talking about hobbies."
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Reading and writing exercises of Part One of ICW. Character practice, second half of ICCW. |
9/26 | Review of the first part of IC 4 |
Reading and writing exercises of Part Two of ICW. |
9/27 | Recycle and practice the grammar of IC 4
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Reciew of IC4 Do Listening exercises of IC 4 and Study the new words of IC 5 |
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Daily Schedule of IC 5
Date | During-class Activities | Post-class Assignments |
10/1 | Review of IC 4: greeting, family, telling times, inviting, hobbies and etc |
Character practice, part 1 of ICCW Practice the first dialogue |
10/2 | Part 1 of IC 5: "visiting friends" |
Reading and writing exercises of Part One of ICW. Character practice, second part of ICCW |
10/3 | Review of the first part of IC 5, visiting-friends protocol |
Reading and writing exercises of Part Two of ICW. |
10/4 | Practicing reading and writing of the characters of IC 5 | Review IC5 Do Listening exercises of IC5 |
Date | During-class Activities | Post-class Assignments |
10/8 | Review for Midterm Exam | Review |
10/9 | Mid-term speaking Evaluation (in pairs) | Review |
10/10 | Review and Mid-term written exam |
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10/11,12 | Oct. break | Study IC 6 |
Date | During-class Activities | Post-class Assignments |
10/15 | IC 6: "making a phone call/appointment" |
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10/16 | IC 6: "making a phone call/appointment" |
Reading and writing exercises of Part One of ICW. Character practice, second half of ICCW. |
10/17 | Review of the first part of IC 6 Finish IC 6: appointments, asking for help etc |
Reading and writing exercises of Part Two of ICW. |
10/18 | Finish IC6 |
Date | During-class Activities | Post-class Assignments |
10/22 | Review and a speaking quiz | Character practice is optional from now-on. Practice the first dialogue. |
10/23 | IC7:, talking about studies and daily routine |
Reading and writing exercises of Part One of ICW. |
10/24 | Recycle and practice the grammar of IC 7 Practicing reading and writing of the characters of IC 7 |
Reading and writing exercises of Part Two of ICW. |
10/25 | Comprehensive review |
Review of IC 7 Do Listening exercises of IC7 |
Date | During-class Activities | Post-class Assignments |
10/29 | review and a written quiz |
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10/30 | Review of IC 7: how well people do things and etc. |
Practice the first part and Listen to IC8. |
10/31 | Review of the first part of IC 8 |
Reading and writing exercises of Part One of ICW. |
11/1 | Recycle and practice the grammar of IC 8 Practicing reading and writing of the characters of IC 8 |
Reading and writing exercises of Part Two of ICW. |
Date | During-class Activities | Post-class Assignments |
11/5 | Review and a speaking quiz |
Listen to IC9. Practice the dialogue. |
11/6 | The first dialogue of IC 9: "shopping" |
Reading and writing exercises of Part One of ICW. |
11/7 | The second dialogue of IC 9: "shopping" |
Reading and writing exercises of Part Two of ICW. |
11/8 | Review of IC 9 "shopping" Practicing reading and writing of the characters of IC 9 |
Review of IC 9 Do Listening exercises of IC9 |
Date | During-class Activities | Post-class Assignments |
11/12 | Roleplay of shopping. Comprehensive review and a written quiz IC 10 : the "weather stuff" |
Listen to IC10. Practice the dialogue. |
11/13 | Review of the first part of IC 10 |
Reading and writing exercises of Part One of ICW. |
11/14 | Recycle and practice the grammar (comparison) of IC 10 |
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11/15 | Review of IC 9 and 10 | Happy Fall Break!! |
Date | During-class Activities | Post-class Assignments |
11/26-30 | Review of IC 8, 9 and 10 and one extra lesson |
Practice the dialogue. |
Daily Schedule of the Last 2 Weeks
12/3-13 | Final Review Final Speaking Assessment (see test guidlines): each pair will have 15 minutes for this comprehensive cummulative test. This is 20% of the final exam. Listening, reading and writing Reviews (handouts) |
Listening to tapes and do reading and writing review. You should go over the exercises you have done so far and redo 1) those that you missed and 2) those that you didn't do correctly. |
12/19 | Final Written Exam 6:30-8:30 pm (Wedn.) |
Disability Access Statement
If you have a hidden or visible disability which may require classroom or test accommodations please see me as
soon as possible during a scheduled office hour. If you have not already done so, you must register with the Coordinator
of Disability Services (Erin Salva, salvae@kenyon.edu, x5145), who is the individual responsible for coordinating
accommodations and services for students with disabilities. All information and documentation of disability is strictly confidential.
No accommodations will be granted in this course without notification from the Office of Disability Services.
Academic Honesty
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Title IX
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