Course Outline: Introductory Mandarin 11

Introduction Introductory Mandarin 11 is a beginner’s course for learners who have not previously studied Mandarin, and who wish to enrich their language and culture experience. This course will provide learners with fundamental skills to enable learners to communicate with Mandarin speakers in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in real social environment.

The RosettaStone software will be used as the main tool to deliver the learning and practicing materials on line. RosettaStone 中文 Level 1 will be used for Introductory Mandarin 11. Supplementary teaching and practice materials will also be provided to help learners to enhance their learning. On line and face to face tutorial hours are also provided to enable learners to ask questions or practice with the instructor as needed.

About the RosettaStone Software RosettaStone is an easy-to-use software for second language learners. It uses a communicative approach to provide a real-life social environment in which learners can build their foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, and develop the language skills to enjoy social interactions.

As first-time users, learners can simply log on as First-time user, navigate around and click Quick Start guide to adjust the computer hardware settings for the headset. Learners can also choose to turn on or off the “Speech recognition” function when learners want to practice speaking Mandarin with the native speaker. It is suggested that learners practice a few times to become familiar with navigating between the course screens and ways to answer questions before starting the course.

The organization of the course materials Introductory Mandarin 11 includes four thematic units. Each unit is divided into four core lessons that are in turn developed into a variety of practice and activities such as pronunciation, vocabulary, listening, reading, writing, and review. Learners can click any of these buttons to choose the activities to do. Activities are marked and can be reset. Learners can redo the same activity as needed. The “Milestone” button at the end of each lesson provides learners with a comprehensive review in oral format, which enables learners to review all the concepts and skills learned in the core lessons. In order to move to a new core lesson, learners are required to finish all the activities in order.

Expected Learning Outcomes:

 Introduce yourself and others using the basic and appropriate family relationship terms such as age and family relations  Questions, greetings, introductions  Describe events, experiences, and procedures sequentially with appropriate terms such as times of day, calendar terms, directions, locations,  Express apologies and polite requests properly  Participate in variety of situations drawn from real life such as order at a restaurant and give and receive directions  Describe and express emotions, preference, opinions and ideas  process and adapt information from age-appropriate Chinese-language resources to complete authentic tasks  convey acquired information with an increasing level of competency in oral and written language

Outcome Assessment and Evaluation Culture Projects 15-20% Rosetta Stone/Assessments 60-70% Expansion Language Activities /Elluminate (once a month) 10-15%

All the communication skills, listening, speaking reading and writing will be assessed in the above formats.

Introductory Mandarin 11 instructor Dr. H. Tang [email protected]

Introductory Mandarin 11 learning center:

Location: Gleneagle Secondary Room ???

Time: Tuesday 4:00pm – 7:00pm