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Modern Chinese (2)

Yunnan Normal University via XuetangX

Overview

In the past five years, the course instructor Qi Chunhong has been responsible for the classroom teaching and curriculum reform of the "Modern Chinese 2" course, completing a total of 360 class hours and teaching 259 students majoring in Chinese International Education.

 Edited one textbook, published one monograph related to grammar teaching, and published six papers on educational reform and research.

 Hosted six teaching and research projects related to Chinese grammar teaching. Awarded a provincial - level project for cultivating high - quality graduate courses. Led a provincial - level project for a case repository for professional degree graduate teaching titled Chinese Grammar and Its Teaching> Course Case Repository. Hosted one project each for ideological and political education in graduate courses and for educational reform at the university level. Led two provincial and ministerial - level research topics. Received a provincial - level second prize for teaching achievement and a second prize in a provincial - level teaching competition, both ranked first. Guided students to win first, second, and third prizes in various teaching competitions, and received an award for excellent guidance in teaching competitions. The research work "A Study on the Acquisition of Chinese Directional Complements by Students from Three Southeast Asian Countries" won a provincial - level second prize in scientific research. The course "Modern Chinese 2" was approved as a first - class course at the university level in 2021 and as a core course in advantageous majors at the university level in 2022.

 The course team members participated in thematic teaching of the course, published 2 textbooks, and published 4 research papers; they obtained 1 provincial - level quality course cultivation, built 1 school - level blended course and 1 school - level ideological and political course, won a second prize in a provincial teaching competition, a second prize in a school - level teaching competition, and received 2 awards for excellent guiding teachers at various levels. Professor Yu Jinzhi, a member of the course group, is a Yunling Scholar; Professor Huang Qiqing is the Vice Dean of the College of Chinese Language and Literature at Yunnan Normal University; Teachers Chen Limei and Li Yamei are associate professors at Yunnan Normal University; and Teacher Ding Qian is a lecturer at the College of Chinese Language and Literature at Yunnan Normal University.


Syllabus

  • Chapter One: Overview of Grammar
    • 1.1 What is grammar
    • 1.2 The Evolution of Grammar Studies
    • 1.3 Grammar Knowledge and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
    • 1.4 Characteristics of Chinese Grammar
    • 1.5 Grammatical Units
    • 1.6 Syntactic Components and Their Compatibility
  • Chapter Two: Parts of Speech (Part One)
    • 2.1 What is a part of speech?
    • 2.2 Criteria for Classifying Parts of Speech
    • 2.3 Content Words, Function Words, Nouns
    • 2.4 Verbs
    • 2.5 Adjectives and Distinguishing Words
    • 2.6 Adverbs and Pronouns
  • Chapter Three: Parts of Speech (Continued)
    • 3.1. Prepositions
    • 3.2 Conjunctions
    • 3.3 Particles
    • 3.4 Syntactic and Semantic Functions of Dynamic Particles "着", "了" and "过"
    • 3.5 What tone does the modal particle actually express?
    • 3.6 Summary of Parts of Speech and Ambiguous Words
  • Chapter Four: Phrases
    • 4.1 Phrases and Their Classification
    • 4.2 Functional Types of Phrases
    • 4.3 Polysemous Phrases
  • Chapter Five: Syntactic Components
    • 5.1 Attributive Clause
    • 5.2 Simple Directional Complements
    • 5.3 Modal Complement
    • 5.4 Possible Complement
    • 5.5 Analytic Hierarchy Process
  • Chapter Six: Simple Sentences
    • 6.1 The "被" construction
    • 6.2 Interrogative Sentences
    • 6.3 Subject - Predicate Sentences and Non - Subject - Predicate Sentences
    • 6.4 把 construction
    • 6.5 Linking Verbs
    • 6.6 Syntactic Features of Concurrent Verbal Sentences
    • 6.7 Existential Sentences
    • 6.8 Sentence Transformation
    • 6.9 Common Grammatical Errors - Checking and Revising Sentence Errors
  • Chapter Seven: Compound Sentences
    • 7.1 Joint Compound Sentence
    • 7.2 Subordinate Compound Sentence
    • 7.3 Contracted Compound Sentences
    • 7.4 Multiple Compound Sentences
    • 7.5 Detection and Correction of Errors in Compound Sentences
  • Chapter Eight: Sentence Cluster
    • 8.1 Overview of Sentence Cluster
    • 8.2 Examination and Revision of Sentence Cluster Errors
  • Chapter Nine: Rhetoric
    • 9.1 Rhetoric Interest
    • 9.2 Long Sentences and Short Sentences
    • 9.3 Rhetorical Questions and Interrogative Sentences
    • 9.4 Affirmative and Negative Sentences
    • 9.5 Complete Sentences and Fragments
    • 9.6 Metaphor and Simile
    • 9.7 Metonymy
    • 9.8 The Differences Between Metaphor, Simile, and Metonymy
    • 9.9 The Teaching of "Zeugma " and "Transferred Epithet", "Anadiplosis" and "Chiasmus"
    • 9.10 Antithesis, Parallelism, Climax
    • 9.11 Comprehensive Application of Rhetorical Devices
    • 9.12 The Use of Rhetorical Devices and Common Errors
    • 9.13 Stylistics
  • examination

    Taught by

    ChunHong Qi, Huang Qiqing, Jinzhi Yu, Limei Chen, and Qian Ding

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