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2. Supplementary On-line Materials
3. Useful Apps
5. Links to Professional Tests
Chinese Language Learning Textbooks:
Integrated Chinese
Level appropriate: 100-Level
Language skills emphasized: Vocabulary, Grammar, and Reading
Level appropriate: 100-Level
Language skills emphasized: Vocabulary, Grammar, and Reading
- USC Chinese Character Guide (based on Integrated Chinese)
Level appropriate: 200-Level
Language skills emphasized: Character Writing
Level appropriate: 100- & 200-Levels
Language skills emphasized: Listening
- Ready-made flashcard website (type “Integrated Chinese”)
- Integrated Chinese Materials from UC Berkeley
- Integrated Chinese Home Page from the University of Hawaii
- Web Resources for Integrated Chinese from the University of Hawaii
- Integrated Chinese Materials Part 1 and Part 2 from SDSU
Chinese for Tomorrow
- Course Website (for instructors and students)
Level appropriate: 100- & 200-Levels
Language skills emphasized: Vocabulary, Listening, and Reading
All Things Considered
The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries
The Routledge in Business Chinese
Chinese Literature Textbooks:
Developing Fluency
- Course Website (for instructors and students)
Level appropriate: 200-Level
Language skills emphasized: Vocabulary, Grammar, Listening, and Reading
Chinese Literature & Civilization Textbooks:
A Chinese Text Sampler: An Annotated Collection of Digitized Chinese Texts for Students of Chinese Language and Culture
On-line Chinese Museum (calligraphy, painting, art, etc.)
Chinese Cultural Notes
2. Supplementary On-line Materials:
Language Learning:
Includes all levels of Chinese learning materials
Level appropriate: All Levels
Language skills emphasized: Listening and Reading
More information: Chinese Culture, Competition, Online Learning, and Scholarship
Level appropriate: All Levels
Language skills emphasized: Listening and Reading
More information: Chinese Culture, Online Learning, and Scholarship
Comprehensive website covering everything to do with learning Chinese
Excellent TV series with Chinese and English subtitles. Each episode has an
interesting theme, such as dumplings and Beijing opera
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Students’ strategies for learning Chinese (with students’ video testimonies)
Listening:
Level appropriate: 100-Level
Language skills emphasized: Listening
Reading:
Offers beginning & intermediate reading lessons with audio from the University of Iowa.
Speaking:
Includes 15 units of basic expressions, such as greetings, family, time, food, etc.
3. Useful Apps (Free of Charge):
- Pleco (for iPhone, iPad, and Android)
Level appropriate: All Levels
Language skills emphasized: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
Language dictionary with features including recognition of handwriting inputs and camera-shot character lookups, stroke order diagrams, and more.
Level appropriate: All Levels
Language skills emphasized: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
Language dictionary with features like pinyin and handwriting recognition, word-by-word
text translations, and tools to make your own flashcards and quizzes to test yourself.
Level appropriate: 100- & 200- Levels
Language skills emphasized: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
Comprehensive flashcard site that assists in memorization and understanding the
origins of each Chinese character.
Level appropriate: All Levels
Language skills emphasized: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
Language dictionary that has features such as handwriting recognition, vocabulary
usage examples, stroke order, radical explanations, learning exercises, memorization
tests, short texts and dialogues (with complimentary audio recordings), and more.
Level appropriate: All Levels
Language skills emphasized: On-line learning
Language learning website that provides structured lessons, complete with flashcards,
audio recordings, texts, quizzes, as well as a social networking environment that
makes it easy to connect with language partners from across the globe.
Level appropriate: All Levels
Language skills emphasized: Writing
Language-exchange social networking site that allows users to write Chinese journal
entries, connect with native Chinese speakers currently studying Enlgish, and correct
each others' entries to mutually improve each others' written language skills.
- Anki Flashcard Maker (for computers, iPhone, iPad, and Android)
Level appropriate: All Levels
Language skills emphasized: Vocabulary
Flashcard maker that brings together an assortment of external sources for language
learning, offering material ranging from vocabulary lists to grammar structures to
dialogues and audio clips.
Level appropriate: 300- & 400- Levels
Language skills emphasized: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
- Popup Chinese
- China Daily
- Singapore Morning Herald
- People's Daily from the PRC
- Vice of America - News (in Chinese)
See and hear the news in Chinese. Use the vocabulary lessons to learn idiomatic
expressions.
5. Links to Professional Tests:
The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) is China's national standardized test that assesses
the Chinese language proficiency of non-native speakers. The HSK is a test that
examines the student's ability to read and write in Chinese, as well as speak and
interpret the language. There are two forms of the HSK: a written test and an oral test.
The written test has six different HSK levels, ranging from Level 1 (beginner) to Level 6
(superior); the oral test has three levels, ranging from elementary to advanced.
The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) is a standardized global assessment of the level of spoken fluency of non-native speakers in the target language. The test is done through a face-to-face meeting or telephone interview with a certified ACTFL tester. The student's fluency level is matched to one of ten standard levels of proficiency, ranging from novice low to superior.
The Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency (STAMP) is an online assessment that determines the proficiency level of non-native speakers in the target language through the utilization of real-world situations in the context of the language. It
assesses the student's reading, writing, listening, and speaking proficiency, with eight
to nine standard levels ranging from novice-low to advanced-high.
URI Chinese Language Speech Competition
The Department of Modern languages Chinese Program in collaboration with the URI Confucius Institute is proud to announce the 1st annual Chinese Speech Competition. Click on the link below for more information.
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