LANG 430 - Chinese Language Pedagogy and Practice

The course is designed to help students develop a better understanding of the current theories and practice of Chinese language pedagogy and acquisition, to become acquainted with the National Standards (the five goal areas: communication, cultures, connections, comparisons, and communities and the three communicative modes: presentational, interpretive and interpersonal) and the teaching materials and methodologies in five major content areas of Chinese language learning (i.e. the pronunciation system, characters, sentences/grammar, discourse, and culture). Students will be given opportunities to design/develop teaching materials (including both language and cultural components) for different levels of classes and to strategize and articulate their courses based on assessment guidelines. This course may also be used as Linguistics 402 for linguistics majors.

Prerequisites & Notes: CHIN 202.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter