Advanced Diploma Programme in Chinese as a Foreign/ Second Language (Putonghua)

對外漢語(普通話)高等文憑課程

 

5 academic terms or 20 months. Minimum 759 class hours (69 credits).

 

Expected learning outcomes:

Speaking & Listening(PO3-S&L): 

• Ability to understand and reply to professional discourses containing selected vocabulary items and grammatical structures in real life settings; 

• Ability to apply selected vocabulary items and grammatical structures at the discourse level in real life professional conversations with appropriate usage; 

• Ability to communicate fluently in professional discourses containing selected vocabulary items and grammatical structures in real life settings; 

• Ability to comprehend and listen to professional discourses & conversations and give appropriate responses at the discourse level; 

• Ability to present ideas at the discourse level in real life professional settings.

 

Reading (R1-3): 

• Ability to recognize and read Chinese characters and readings at the sentence level in real life contexts; 

• Ability to comprehend and read Chinese readings at paragraph level in real life contexts; 

• Ability to read and understand Chinese characters with authentic materials and contexts in professional settings.

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Writing (W1-3):

• Ability to copy and reproduce from memory a modest number of isolated words or phrases in context. 

• Ability to write short messages, postcards and simple notes and to express themselves within the context in which the language was learned; Write short messages and paragraph and to express themselves to topics discussed in class.