Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Department of Teaching and Learning
Fall 2014
FLGED-GE 2417-001 Applied Linguistics For Chinese Teachers
Prof. Yishen Lan
Email: [email protected]
Office hours: By appointment
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
All students are responsible for understanding and complying with the NYU Steinhardt
Statement on Academic Integrity. A copy is available here.
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
Students with physical or learning disabilities are required to register with the Moses
Center for Students with Disabilities, 726 Broadway, 2nd Floor, (212-998-4980) and are
required to present a letter from the Center to the instructor at the start of the semester in
order to be considered for appropriate accommodation.
This course is designed for teachers of Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language. It
aims at further improving their Mandarin Chinese skills in understanding the phonetics,
morphology, and syntax in Chinese.
Specifically in this course, you will explore the following aspects of the Chinese
classroom through reading, lecture, reflection, class discussion, demonstration, presentation,
and professional conferences:
a. Chinese phonetics: pinyin, syllables, intonations, rhythm, etc.
b. Morphology: forming of Chinese characters, original and simplified characters
c. Syntax (grammar): Parts of speech of Chinese words, word order, sentence
structures, and patterns.
CLASS SCHEDULE:
No.
Date
Course Contents
1
9/04
2
9/11
Overview of the course, Chinese Phonetics
Reading: Class Packet, Chapter 1(page 1-11). Outline of
Mandarin Pinyin System
Assignment: Completion of the exercises attached
Lecture: Chinese Phonetics : Approaching the Basic Issues of
Mandarin Pronunciation
Reading: Class Packet, Chapter 1(page 12-26): Consonants &
3
4
5
6
7
Vowels in Mandarin
Assignment: Completion of the exercises attached
9/18 Lecture: Consonants & Vowels in Mandarin
Reading: Class Packet, Chapter 1(page 27-107) : Mandarin
Syllables System
Assignment: Completion of the exercises attached
9/25 Lecture: Mandarin Syllables System
Reading: Class Packet, Chapter 1(page 108-133): Mandarin
Sandhi,
Assignment: Completion of the exercises attached
10/02 Lecture: Mandarin Sandhi
Reading: Class Packet, Chapter 1(134-147): Intonation &
Rhythm of Mandarin
Assignment: Completion of the exercises attached
10/09 Lecture: Intonation & Rhythm of Mandarin
Reading: Supplementary Handouts
Assignment: Completion of the exercises attached
10/16 Lecture: Learning Mandarin Phonetics through Comparison
of the Phonological Systems between Mandarin and English
Reading: Class Packet, Chapter 2(2.1, 2.2, 2.3). Advanced
Chinese grammar, and
A Practical Chinese Grammar for Foreigners, Chapter 3(3.2,
3.4)
Assignment: Going through the exercises attached in (3.2,3.4)
8
10/23
9
10/30
10
11/06
11
11/13
12
11/20
Seminar, Chinese Syntax (1): Structures & Patterns; Parts of Speech of
Chinese Words, Word Order.
Reading: Class Packet, Chapter 2 (2.4, 2.5). Sentence Structure &
Characteristics of Mandarin.
A Practical Chinese Grammar for Foreigners, Chapters 3 (3.3, 3.5, 3.7).
Assignment: Going through the Exercises for (3.3, 3.5, 3.7).
Seminar, Chinese Syntax (2), Sentence Structures and Characteristics of
Mandarin
Reading: Class Packet, Chapter 2 (2.6, 2.7). Morphology: Forming of
Chinese Words, Conventions and Meaning.
A Practical Chinese Grammar for Foreigners, Chapters 3 (3.6, 3.8, 3.9).
Assignment: Going through the exercises for (3.6, 3.8, 3.9).
Seminar, Morphology: Forming of Chinese Words, Conventions and
Meaning (1)
Reading: Class Packet, Chapters 2 (2.6, 2.7). A Practical Chinese
Grammar for Foreigners Chapter 3 (3.9-3.12)
Assignment: Contrastively Analyzing the Grammatical Issues between
Chinese and English
Seminar, Morphology (2)
Reading: Class packet, Chapter 4 & A Practical Chinese Grammar,
3.13-3.14
Assignment: Assigning term paper
Seminar, Learning Chinese Grammar through case study
13
12/04
14
12/11
Reading: Class packet, Chapter 4
Seminar, Learning Chinese Grammar through Case Studies
Class presentation, 15 Minutes for each student
Due: Term paper
TEXTBOOKS:
漢語語音教程(曹文編著，北京語言大學)
A Practical Chinese Grammar for Foreigners. (by Li Dejin, Sinolingua, Beijing
1998)
Class packet.
COURSE REQUIREMENT
A. Attendance: No more than two absences will be excused. You are responsible for
making up all the readings and dialogues journals, and for getting the notes for the
class which you have missed. So be sure to get the phone number of at least
one classmate.
B. Readings: All the required readings must be done before coming to class and you should
be ready to respond to questions and participate in discussions on the readings.
C. Participation: Your meaningful and productive participation means a great deal to this
class. Joining class discussion and working in small groups are both part of class
participation.
D. School visit and class observation: All students must visit and observe Chinese classes at
least twice. Write an observation report on each visit.
E. Class Presentations
To be announced.
GRADING:
Attendance and Participation
Completion of Homework & observation reports
Class presentation
Term paper
20%
30%
20%
30%