1. Prospective Students & Program target

Prospective Students: Intensive Chinese Program is open to non-native speakers of Chinese who have a serious desire to improve their language skills.

Program target: The course of study is based on an integrated-skills approach with listening, speaking, reading, writing and grammar components, as well as strength in translation. The program is designed to help students be able to speak Chinese fluently, read various Chinese articles accurately, write simplified Chinese characters standardly, and understand relative Chinese culture correctly.

 2. Skills emphasized

A. Pronunciation: Pronounce Chinese Pinyin accurately and fluently.

B. Vocabulary: Understand the meaning of words, synonym, antonym, andword class. Students in elementary level are supposed to master 600 characters and 1200 words; Students in intermediate level are supposed to master 1500 characters and 3000 words; Students in advancedlevelare supposed to master 3500 characters and 6000 words.

C. Grammar: Mastering basic Chinese grammar rules. Students are expected to make correct sentences, and also be able to analyze basic sentence pattern, and to distinguish syntactic errors.

D. Rhetoric: Students will be trained consciously to adjust and modify their Chinese words invarious situations. For higher level classes, students are required to understand and use the basic and frequent rhetorical forms.

E. Writing: Write complete and standard articles in Chinese. For Higher level classes, students will be trained to write different styles of articles.

F. Translation: Accurateand fluenttranslation between Chinese and students’ mother language.

3. Course Introduction

Three-level courses are provided including intensive Chinese Reading, spoken Chinese, Chinese listening, Chinese reading, HSK Tutorials and Chinese Culture practice.

A. Intensive Chinese Reading: Intensive Chinese is a core course for all 3 levels, which is focusedon integrated language skills. Through learning standard and classical modern Chinese articles, students will enhance their language proficiency inreading, writing, listening, speaking, and pronunciation synthetically.

B. Spoken Chinese: Spoken Chinese is a core course for all 3 levels, which is focused on oral expressions. Students should be able to express their thoughts in real life situations and develop/enhance their Chinese speaking competence. Students can acquire authentic oral expressions and tones naturally by Task-based teaching pattern in class.

C. Chinese Listening: Listening classes are set for elementary and intermediate classes. Listening comprehension is a key initial step in communication.Authentic materials will be used in class, such as a lecture or a radio announcement, or daily conversation in Chinese, so that to help students become accustomed to different accents and to a realistic pace of speech. By improving appropriate listening strategies, students’ oral Chinese will also be enhanced.

D. Chinese Reading: Readingclasses are set for intermediate and advanced classes. By reading all types of authentic materials in Chinese, students will develop the comprehension skills, and also cultivate the awareness of the reading process and reading strategies. The ability of fast-reading, information-processing, analyzing and generalizing are the key focus in reading class.

E. HSKTutorials: This is a selective course, aiming at tutoring students who desire to take HSK-Chinese language proficiency test, especially for HSK level 4, 5 and 6. By learning large amount of HSK required words, analyzing previous test collections, and take mock examination in class, students can enhance Chinese proficiency entirely, as well as gaining test strategies tremendously.

F. Chinese Culture Practice: This is a selective course, providing students plenty of opportunities to observe Chinese society,experience Chineseculture, and to involve Chinese community. The Activities include participating Cultural lectures, visiting museums, galleries and local schools, observing Tea art show and Tai Chi performance, learning Chinese calligraphy, paper cutting and making dumplings, etc.

4. Program Curriculum

Level 1（Elementary）

Level 2 (Intermediate)

Level 3 (Advanced)