Confucius Institute - University of Guyana

Comprehensive Chinese (basic) is a course which gives a basic and comprehensive language training in listening, speaking, reading and writing. It provides an overall view of Chinese language systematically including pronunciation and intonation, grammar, semantics, discourse structure, language function and so on. Meanwhile it also aims at enhancing students’ cross-cultural communicative competence and helps students to cultivate self-learning habits and learning strategies. It will make a good foundation and preparation for further Chinese study.

Comprehensive Chinese (Intermediate) is to improve students’ comprehensive language ability and cross-cultural communicative competence. Based on the completion of training and study of Comprehension Chinese (basic), further mastery of Chinese pronunciation and intonation, basic grammar and vocabulary and discourse reading is stressed and improved by repeating, complementing and deepening. Besides students will have a deeper understanding about Chinese culture and society, and cross-cultural communicative competence is emphasized and enhanced by increasing students’ sensitivity to different cultures.

Comprehensive Chinese (Intermediate) is to improve students’ comprehensive language ability and cross-cultural communicative competence. Based on the completion of training and study of Comprehension Chinese (basic), further mastery of Chinese pronunciation and intonation, basic grammar and vocabulary and discourse reading is stressed and improved by repeating, complementing and deepening. Besides students will have a deeper understanding about Chinese culture and society, and cross-cultural communicative competence is emphasized and enhanced by increasing students’ sensitivity to different cultures.

Comprehensive Chinese (Advanced) is a course that aims at training and improving students’ comprehensive language ability, especially stressing on reading comprehension and writing abilities. This course also tries to highlight and enhance students’ understanding of rhetoric devices in Chinese. The reading and studying materials of this course cover a wide variety of Chinese life, including politics, economy, society, language, literature, education, philosophy, and so on. Through learning the works of accomplished writers, students will have a deeper understanding about Chinese people, society and traditional and modern Chinese culture. Meanwhile analytical and critical thinking abilities and language competence will be improved.