Chinese Iii | Università degli Studi di Milano Statale

A.Y. 2020/2021

Max ECTS

Overall hours

SSD

L-OR/21

Language

Italian

Included in the following degree programmes

Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication (Classe L-12)-Enrolled from 2011/12 Academic Year Until 2020/21 Academic Year

Learning objectives

The course aims to complete the knowledge of the main grammatical and syntax notions, such that to understand complex texts of economic, political, social and literary contents. The translation training activities aims to enrich the lexical knowledge, to analyse complex syntactic structures and to make good use of dictionaries.

Expected learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will be in position to hold complex conversations and to make articulate translations. The skills acquired will be sufficient for taking at least the certification exam HSK 3 (B1).

Lesson period: year

Lessons timetable

Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi

Exams calendar

Single course

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Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible

Bulfoni Clara

Lesson period

year

The face-to-face lessons will be replaced by telematic delivery of teaching on the Microsoft Teams platform in synchronous mode, based on the official timetable of the course

Course syllabus

Unit 1
Complex constructions: anticipation of the object and passive sentences; simple and complex indefinite substitutes; comparisons.
Units 8-12 of the textbook Course of Intermediate Chinese Language will be carried out

Unit 2
Units 13-18 of the intermediate Chinese language course book will be carried out.

Unit 3 - Complex Syntactic Structures in Contemporary Chinese
Approach to the translation with particular attention to the political, economic and legal language, to start the student to translation techniques through the use of the dictionary.

Prerequisites for admission

Full mastery of the notions learned over the previous two years.

Teaching methods

The Italian teacher will explain the new words, the grammatical and syntactic rules; she is also responsible for translating conversations and readings from Chinese into Italian and translating sentences from Italian to Chinese.
The mother tongue teacher will take care of the pronunciation and writing of Chinese characters, and will exercise students in understanding and exposition.

Teaching Resources

Texts adopted
BULFONI C. - SUN X.L., Corso di lingua cinese intermedio, Edizioni Unicopli, Milano, 2018

Reccomended dictionaries
Han-ying cidian, A Chinese-English Dictionary (terza edizione), Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing, 2010
Casacchia G, Bai Yukun, Dizionario cinese italiano, Cafoscarina, 2013
Zhao Xiuying, Il dizionario di cinese, Zanichelli, 2013

Assessment methods and Criteria

The exam consists of a written test and an oral test, both mandatory. In order to take part in the oral exam it is mandatory to have passed the written test.

At the end of the first semester an intermediate, non-compulsory verification is foreseen, which includes the following exercises:
- sentences to reorder
- phrases in which to insert the missing word given in the spaces A, B, C or D.
- sentences to be translated from Italian into Chinese (characters only)
- short translation from Chinese to Italian

For official appeals, in addition to grammar exercises, the translation of a passage from Chinese to Italian is also provided with the aid of the paper dictionary.

The oral discussion for Italian students will be divided into two parts:
- reading and translation of the passages and articles and explanation of some grammatical structures present within all the lessons dealt with during the course
- conversation in Chinese with the mother tongue teacher on previously proposed topics.

The written test for Chinese students includes only the translation of a passage from Chinese to Italian with the help of the paper dictionary.

The oral discussion for Chinese students only involves an interview with the Italian teacher: the candidate will be asked to try his hand at translating the conversations and readings taken from the Intermediate Chinese Language Course text (lez. 10-18)

Should the emergency phase still exist, the types of tests will be promptly specified

L-OR/21 - CHINESE AND SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES - University credits: 9

Lessons: 60 hours

Professors: Bulfoni Clara, Sun Xiaoli

Professor(s)

Bulfoni Clara

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