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Course Title

CHINESE LANGUAGE 1

Course Code

CHIN130138

Credit

3

Program Level

Overview

This course is desgined for first-year English-majored students of HCMC UTE in order to introduce a new foreign language as a second language.  This Chinese course starts at Unit 1 - Unit 10 of Standard Curriculum of HSK1 + Exercise book HSK1 published by Beijing Language and Culture University Press. The course provides students with the basis of consonant, vowel, phonetic structure, tone, tone change... in order to fully master phonetics in Chinese, basic Chinese character structure and the writing of Chinese characters. Furthermore, after the course, students can use Chinese to greet, bid farewell, apologise, show gratitude, trade, visit, discussion,... at a basic level of pre-HSK1 - respectively to the goal of the course.

Course Title

INTRODUCTION TO TESOL

Course Code

ILTE130135

Credit

3

Program Level

Program

Overview

This course is to provide English-majored freshmen at HCMUTE with the overview of TESOL programme, expected learning goals and outcomes as well as career orientation.

Course Title

WRITING 1

Course Code

WRIT120135

Credit

2

Program Level

Overview

Writing 1 is designed to help English majors progress toward pre-intermediate level (equivalent to B1 - CEFR). This course offers intensive practice of 3 types of basic sentences (simple, compound and complex) so that students can express their ideas effectively through making decisions about appropriate vocabulary and style. Besides, sentence level skills such as sentence formation, punctuation, and sentence combination will be emphasized to bolster their performance in future writing classes.

Course Title

SPEECH TRAINING 1

Course Code

SPTR120135

Credit

2

Program Level

Overview

This course is designed for HCMUTE English majored students at the intermediate level (equivalent to B1 – CEFR) in pronunciation.