Description:PART I - Preq: Not open to students with 2 yrs HS Chinese or 1 yr college Chinese with "A" or "B" grade within the past 3 yrs. Recomm: Eligibility for Engl 100A or equiv. Beg oral communication course designed to improve those listening & speaking skills needed for survival at school, on the job & in the community. Participate in a variety of pronunication, listening & conversational activities to improve oral/aural competency. Prerequisites:Not open to native speakers of Mandarin Chinese. Not open to students with two years of high school Chinese or one year of college Chinese with a grade of "A" or "B" within the past three years.Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100
Limits on Enrollment:Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - One Repeat if Grade was D, F, or NC
COURSE CONTENT Outcomes and Objectives:
LISTENING - The students will:
1.  Respond to common social questions using stock phrases.
2.  Understand directions and time.
3.  Begin to understand utterances needed for shopping, banking, transportation and emergencies.
4.  Acquire new vocabulary from context.
5.  Recognize and understand most reduced forms and relaxed speech.
6.  Respond appropriately to the teacher's instructions.
7.  Pick out main ideas and key words in familiar material.
8.  Begin to understand content questions.
SPEAKING - the students will:
1.  Use limited memorized material in simple statement or question form (wh- and yes/no).
2.  Identify and name objects, people, places and signs.
3.  Give name, place of origin and simple personal information.
4.  Express belonging to family institution, and organization.
5.  Express minimal courtesy.
6.  Express agreement, disagreement, invitation, suggestion, refusal and acceptance.
7.  Ask common social questions using stock phrases.
8.  Ask for and give directions and time.
9.  Begin to produce utterances for emergencies.
10. Recognize problems own language presents when trying to produce Chinese sound system.
11. Begin to convey appropriate meaning by using word stress, and statement or questions intonation.
12. Recognize and produce grammatical inflections.
13. Ask teacher to repeat if unable to understand.
14. Begin to ask information questions related to class content.
READING AND WRITING - The students will:
1.  Understand the history and role of Romanization in the study of Chinese.
2.  Master the reading and writing of the Pin Yin system of Romanization.
3.  Understand the relationship of the written Chinese language to the spoken language.
4.  Analyze the structure of a Chinese character, looking for phonetic components and combinant radicals.
5.  Grasp the aesthetically important principles necessary for character reproduction.
6.  Recognize 30 Chinese radicals.
7.  Combine learned radicals to form approximately 20 Chinese characters.
8.  Recognize and reproduce approximately 10 compound characters.
9.  Recognize and reproduce numbers 1 - 99 in character form.
Topics and Scope: Content and topics will vary somewhat, but will reflect beginning communicative skills required to function in cross-cultural, academic, social and job-related situations.
LISTENING & SPEAKING:
1.  Introduction to language and writing, and the sounds of Chinese: Greeting friends, meeting people, shopping at bookstore, number practice, numbers and measures, a charge account, receiving phone calls, clock time, pidgin Chinese, inquiring about places, exchanging information, asking directions, conversing  with a ticket seller.
2.  Reviewing Chinese: Pronunciation review and analogy.
TASKS (Listening):
1.  Listening for the main idea, listening with visuals, graphic fill-ins,   selective listening, comprehension checks, dictation and variations.
2.  Clue searching such as listening for cues to meaning in a text: syntactic features, actor, action, object.
3.  Listening readiness (pre-listening) activities.
4.  Information gap tasks.
TASKS (Speaking):
1.  Questions: completion and cloze exercises, true or false, matching.
2.  Sentence builders, word associations.
3.  Group puzzles, surveys and polls, conversation cards, forced choice.
4.  Slash sentence, directed dialogue, logical conclusions, information gap.
5.  Conduct a simple interview and report back to class.
READING & WRITING:
TASKS (Reading):
1.  Using character recognition skills, study passages written pasages learned orally.
TASKS (Writing):
1.  Dictations only using Chinese characters.
2.  Repeated duplications of characters.
3.  Stroke counting and stroke order.
4.  Create sentences and dialogues in Pin Yin. Assignments:
1.  Assignments and activities include individual, pair and small group work, such as role-plays, interviews, problem solving activities, dialogues and skits.
2.  Students will perform functional assignments in the community, such as requesting information over the telephone.