Bachelor
2025/2026
Practical Course of Chinese. Basic Level
Type:
Elective course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1 year, 1-4 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Kristina Danilina
Language:
English
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course program sets minimum requirements to students` knowledge and skills and determines the content and types of courses and documentation. The program is designed for teaching staff, assistants and 1st years students specialising in “Linguistics” 45.03.02 of the program “Foreign languages and cross-cultural communication”. “Practical Course of Chinese. Pre-Intermediate Level” is a part of basic professional courses (Major). 1st year students start learning Chinese without any basic knowledge. The aim of the course is the preparation of a specialist mastering Chinese in order to be capable to use it later to solve professional tasks in information and linguistics, in consultative and communicative spheres, and in translation corresponding to the 1-2 levels of standartised qualification exam in Chinese (HSK 1-2).
Learning Objectives
- Formation and development of foreign language communicative competence at HSK 2 level, which implies the student's readiness and ability to communicate in Chinese in everyday life in any communicative situations and academic communication in the simplest communicative situations.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Has the skills of listening, reading, pronunciation and speaking, writing.
- Knows the structure and basics of the phonetic and hieroglyphic structure.
- knows the types of the graphic structure of the hieroglyph and the order of writing the features.
- Is able to support a basic conversation on the topic of education and life on the university campus, as well as to draw up various documents required by the student.
- Is able to support a basic conversation on the topic of family: to represent family members, to name names, age, profession and occupation, etc.
- Knows the ways of expressing dates, exact time, approximate quantity and time.
- Knows how to navigate in space, as well as describe the location of objects, people, public institutions.
- Is able to perceive and understand oral speech in the everyday sphere on the topics studied.
- Knows the names of the countries of the world and a number of countries in Chinese.
- Knows the main dishes of Chinese cuisine, knows how to make orders and pay in Chinese restaurants.
- Can write and read texts, perceive and understand oral speech by ear, as well as support a basic conversation on the topics of study and student life, work and daily routine.
- Is able to make purchases and pay in Chinese stores, markets, as well as conduct a conversation with Chinese sellers.
- Understand individual words and some phrases/sentences in spoken and written Chinese texts typical for everyday communication.
- Combine several short sentences into a simple meaningful oral and written utterance in Chinese.
- Engage in simple conversation by asking/answering simple questions and responding to the conversation partner's speech with elementary phrases in Chinese.
- Understand separate ideas, fragments and sentences of oral and written texts in Chinese, including those typical for academic communication.
- Produce simple short oral and written texts in Chinese, express thoughts clearly using mostly simple sentences.
- Participate in simple conversations in Chinese, including those typical of academic communication.
Assessment Elements
- Oral examThis element of control evaluates the student’s level of oral speech proficiency for solving various communication tasks.
- Current control 2 ModuleThis element of control checks the current level of development of the student’s language skills and speech abilities and includes the assessment of phonetic, lexical, grammar tests, listening and reading tests and tasks, as well as oral and written speech products created by the student.
- Classroom workThis element of control evaluates the student's use of a foreign language to solve various communication tasks in the process of direct interaction between the teacher and students in the classroom, including with the support of prepared homework.
- Current control 1 ModuleThis element of control checks the current level of development of the student’s language skills and speech abilities and includes the assessment of phonetic, lexical, grammar tests, listening and reading tests and tasks, as well as oral and written speech products created by the student.
- Current control 4 ModuleThis element of control checks the current level of development of the student’s language skills and speech abilities and includes the assessment of phonetic, lexical, grammar tests, listening and reading tests and tasks, as well as oral and written speech products created by the student.
- Current control 3 ModuleThis element of control checks the current level of development of the student’s language skills and speech abilities and includes the assessment of phonetic, lexical, grammar tests, listening and reading tests and tasks, as well as oral and written speech products created by the student.
- Final written workThis element of control evaluates the level of development of the student’s lexical and grammatical skills, listening and reading skills and abilities, as well as proficiency in written speech to solve various communication tasks.
- Classroom workThis element of control evaluates the student's use of a foreign language to solve various communication tasks in the process of direct interaction between the teacher and students in the classroom, including with the support of prepared homework.
- Final written workThis element of control evaluates the level of development of the student’s lexical and grammatical skills, listening and reading skills and abilities, as well as proficiency in written speech to solve various communication tasks.
- Oral examThis element of control evaluates the student’s level of oral speech proficiency for solving various communication tasks.
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 2nd module0.1 * Classroom work + 0.25 * Current control 1 Module + 0.25 * Current control 2 Module + 0.15 * Final written work + 0.25 * Oral exam
- 2025/2026 4th module0.1 * Classroom work + 0.25 * Current control 3 Module + 0.25 * Current control 4 Module + 0.15 * Final written work + 0.25 * Oral exam
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Курс китайского языка Boya Chinese. Начальный уровень. Ступень I, учебник, подг. к изд. на рус. яз. А. Г. Сторожук, Е. Н. Колпачкова, Е. И. Митькина, Н. Н. Власова ; под общ. ред. А. Г. Сторожука ; пер. и комм. Е. И. Митькиной, Е. Н. Колпачковой, Н. Н. Власовой, [12], 211 с., Ли Сяоци, Жэнь Сюэмэй, Сюй Цзиннин, 2022
- Ли, С. BOYA CHINESE Курс китайского языка. Начальный уровень. Ступень-1 : учебник / С. Ли, С. Жэнь, Ц. Сюй. — Санкт-Петербург : КАРО, 2019. — 224 с. — ISBN 978-5-9925-1126-0. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/164265 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Курс китайского языка Boya Chinese. Начальный уровень. Ступень I, рабочая тетрадь, подг. к изд. на рус. яз. А. Г. Сторожук, Е. Н. Колпачкова, Е. И. Митькина, Н. Н. Власова ; под общ. ред. А. Г. Сторожука ; пер. и комм. Е. И. Митькиной, Е. Н. Колпачковой, Н. Н. Власовой; упр. для повтор. Н. Н. Власовой, 176 с., Ли Сяоци, Жэнь Сюэмэй, 2022
- Ли, С. BOYA CHINESE Курс китайского языка. Начальный уровень. Ступень-1. Лексико-грамматический справочник : учебное пособие / С. Ли, С. Жэнь, Ц. Сюй. — Санкт-Петербург : КАРО, 2019. — 112 с. — ISBN 978-5-9925-1136-9. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/164266 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
- Ли, С. BOYA CHINESE Курс китайского языка. Начальный уровень. Ступень-1. Рабочая тетрадь : учебное пособие / С. Ли, С. Жэнь, Ц. Сюй. — Санкт-Петербург : КАРО, 2019. — 176 с. — ISBN 978-5-9925-1127-7. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/164267 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.