BA Modern Language and Business & Management (Chinese)

Language-Based Project 2 is an advanced Chinese language course for students who have already completed CHIN38771: Language-Based Project 1. It is designed to allow students with near-native proficiency in Mandarin Chinese to put their language skills to work through the completion of two independent projects: a 30 minute oral presentation and a language-based media project such as a video, website, computer game, or piece of creative writing (a short story, prose essay or collection of poems, for example). Students will decide the topics of these assessed elements on the basis of their academic and vocational interests and in consultation with their tutor. Students will report on their progress in weekly hour-long tutorials before submitting the media project in week 12. Tutorials may also be used to practice informal and formal topics of advanced conversational Chinese, with feedback provided. 

Available to BA Chinese Studies and programme combinations involving Chinese with other languages and area studies degrees and BA Modern Language with Business and Management etc.

This course aims to:

• Guide students to learn independently
• Help students to set their own learning targets
• Train students to analyze and critique their own work

By the end of this course students will be able to:

• Confidently display their proficiency in the target language using both written and oral skills.
• Equip themselves with the strategies to maintain and extend their skills in the target language in the future.
• Become more self-aware and self-critical in the field of language learning and language development.
• Discover ways in which they can increase and extend their level of motivation in the field of foreign language learning.

N/A: the content of the oral presentation and Chinese-language media project will be dictated by individual students’ academic and vocational interests and materials will be consulted as relevant to the chosen topics.

One 1-hour tutorial per week

By the end of this course students will be able to:

• Confidently display their proficiency in the target language, using both written and oral skills
• Equip themselves with the strategies to maintain and extend their skills in the target language in the future
• Become more self-aware and self-critical in the field of language learning and language development
• Discover ways in which they can increase and extend their level of motivation in the field of foreign language learning

By the end of this course students will be able to:

•  Explore issues and subject matter of interest to the student with a high level of linguistic and intellectual  sophistication
•  Conduct independent research using Chinese-language primary and secondary materials
• Create a Chinese-language media project that is appropriately designed, makes good use of the medium at hand, displays a high level of linguistic competency and demonstrates excellent understanding of the subject matter concerned

By the end of this course students will be able to:

• Identify and make use of Chinese-language materials that suit their level of language ability, interests and needs
• Manage their own pace of learning
• Learn independently

By the end of this course students will be able to:

• Identify and make use of Chinese-language materials that suit their level of language ability, interests and needs
• Manage their own pace of learning
• Learn independently

• Assessment task	Length	Weighting within unit
  A media project on a topic of the student’s own choice, such as a video, website, computer game, or piece of creative writing (i.e. a short story, prose essay or collection of poems)                   Oral presentation on a topic of the student’s own choice, making appropriate use of audio-visual materials	Suggested length for a video: at least 20 minutes For a computer game: enough content to support at least 10 minutes of language-based game play For a website: at least 2500 words in total, divided into different pages/windows as appropriate For a creative writing project: at least 1000 words, depending on the nature of the work     20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A	50%                               50%

• Oral feedback an individual basis when discussing progress
• Written feedback on the extended essay
• Additional one-to-one feedback (during consultation hour or by making an appointment)

N/A; students are encouraged to consult as many Chinese-language sources as required for their independent learning. The instructor will make suggestions regarding relevant materials as necessary.