青岛大学2011年强化暑期班中文语言文化课程.docVIP

青岛大学2011年强化暑期班中文语言文化课程 Qingdao University Chinese language and Culture Intensive Summer Immersion Program Brief Introduction The program has had a successful run each summer in the past seven years. It provided a combination of intensive language training and cultural immersion. The solid eight-week classes meet four hours each morning and one hour of one-on-one speaking session each afternoon. ?Each student has a week-long home-stay with a Chinese family. The program also offers mini-courses on calligraphy, martial arts and folk songs in afternoons. The program is also enriched by cultural tours to Beijing and Confucius’ hometown in addition to local places in Qingdao where students visit markets, schools, nursing homes, kindergartens, museums, tea farms, traditional clinics, the Beijing opera troupe, the sacred Taoist mountain, and Buddhist temples. Duration From May 24 to July 25, 2011, 9 Weeks 8 weeks on Qingdao campus and one week for cultural excursion in Beijing and/or Shanghai. Language Classes Open to international students of all levels; students will be placed at their appropriate following levels. Intensive Elementary Chinese 强化初级汉语:Textbooks: Integrated Chinese（中文听说读写）, Level One, Book I and II Contact hours: 5 hours a day and 25 hours a week Using the communicative approach, the course emphasizes on speaking, listening and reading at an accelerated speed while writing is introduced and practiced in a proper sequence. Total contact hours are 200, in addition to being immersed in a Chinese linguistic and cultural environment. The course is equivalent to the one-year sequential courses of the First-Year Chinese in an American University which has a strong Chinese program. Intensive Intermediate Chinese 强化中级汉语 Textbooks: Integrated Chinese （中文听说读写）, Level Two Contact hours: 5 hours a day and 25 hours a week Using the communicative approach, students work on developing a strong foundation for the four languag