The course aims to introduce students to Chinese business contexts, both written and oral, and to their linguistic, social and cultural characteristics.

Students will study texts dealing with economical and commercial issues, such as business letters and e-mails, articles from newspapers, official documents issued by the government of the PRC, promotional texts. They will work on reading comprehension, translation, analysis, and will focus on style, grammar and vocabulary, but also on intercultural, brand and marketing connected elements that have to be taken into account in order to establish a fruitful dialogue with China.

Having passed Chinese language I.

g knowledge and understanding: students will apply their knowledge and understanding in reading comprehension and oral and written production.

Making judgements: students will develop hypotheses and make autonomous judgments in using their knowledge contextually, understanding the meaning of the texts and evaluating their own production.

Communication skills: students will be able to communicate in business contexts and express their knowledge clearly.

Learning skills: students will acquire the tools and methodologies to deepen their knowledge of the field with a high degree of autonomy. 

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Teaching methods include face-to-face lectures, interactive lessons exercise sessions, seminars. The course will include teaching practice lessons held by a mother tongue lecturer. Reading, writing and practice in conversation lessons (120 hours/Annual course) will be conducted by Chinese lector, Yang Xinge with integration of oral practice lessons held by a professor from Aula Confucio. The attendance to these lessons is highly recommended. For further information visit the website https://www.uniurb.it/corsi/1757159/lettorati.

Innovative teaching methods

Teaching instruction will inlcude multimedia resources (video, audio, online learning app).

Attendance

Not compulsory but highly recommended.

Course books

• Materials are provided by teachers and available on the Moole learning platform.

  Recommended books and dictionary:

Leonesi, Barbara. Cinese & affari. Milano: Hoepli, 2012.

Xiuying Zhao, Il dizionario di Cinese. Dizionario Cinese-Italiano Italiano-Cinese. Zanichelli, 2016.

Assessment

Assessment methods are oral exams and written tests.  Dictionary not allowed.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Non-attending students need to contact the teacher at the beginning of the semester.

Course books

Teaching materials are the same for both attending and non-attending students

Assessment

Assessment is the same for both attending and non-attending students

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.