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This course is designed for first-year English-majored students at HCMC University of Technology and Education to improve the Chinese language proficiency of those who have completed the course Chinese 1.

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.

The course is designed for English-majored students to obtain listening and speaking skills at intermediate level (B1+). To be more specific, students can achieve listening-speaking strategies (getting main ideas and details) and can comprehend common themes of work, school, entertainment, hobbies, experience description, dream, etc. and then discuss, give reasons as well as explain ideas about the given topics. Moreover, students can broaden their general knowledge and pool of vocabulary through units. Furthermore, academic skills, such as inferring, summarizing, giving presentation, group-work, test-taking are emphasized during in-class activities to develop learners’ critical thinking and study skills.

The course is designed for the first-year English majored students in the second semester in order to introduce a new language as the second language. This course aims at enhancing students’ ability to communicate in Japanese at elementary level. The course also provides the students with familiar topics related to self-introduction, greetings, family and so on.