Liang Fu

Continuation of CHIN 142, for students whose home language is not Chinese. Development of interactional competence in Chinese, (sociolinguistic and socio cultural knowledge) to communicate and interact with speakers of Chinese. The course is based on a student-centered, critical-thinking approach to language analysis/acquisition. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for CHIN 263 if student has credit for CHIN 201/CHIN 206.

Continuation of Chinese 264, for students whose home language is not Chinese. Emphasis on developing reading and writing ability as more authentic materials and socio-cultural topics are introduced. Upon completion students are expected to be able to write approximately 650 characters and be able to perform communicative tasks appropriate to this range of tasks

Emphasis on reading narrative texts, and understanding authentic oral texts. Writing assignments stress skills necessary for basic personal needs and tasks necessary for writing social correspondence. At the completion of 311, students will be able to write approximately 800 Chinese characters, and be able to perform communicative tasks appropriate to this range of characters.