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Credit

1.0

Prerequisites

Mandarin II or appropriate score on Mandarin Placement Test & Teacher Approval

Mandarin III

ML340

 Course ID

Mandarin III

ML340

 Course ID

Mandarin III is a function-based high school course in Modern Standard Chinese, or Putonghua, in which all communication will be in Mandarin. It incorporates and integrates topics, structures, grammar, and cultural information within a framework based on a communicative approach to language learning.

The emphasis throughout the course is on what students can do using the Chinese language and how they can communicate with Chinese-language speakers in various real-life situations. In Mandarin III, all student work is done independently.

Students will independently write email responses, narrate the flow of a story given key words only using a minimum of 200 words, and independently answer teacher-directed questions. Their reading and listening skills will be at an advanced level from Mandarin II, completely in the Mandarin language. The requirements for the cultural presentation will follow the AP format, scaffolding to the Mandarin III level.