Defense Language Institute. Standard Chinese: A Modular Approach. Student Text and Workbook (Module 8: Traveling in China)

Defense Language Institute, 1982. — vi, 256 pages.Модульный курс разговорного стандартного (не диалектного) китайского языка. Предполагается, что литература курса должны сопровождаться звукозаписями, однако, звукозаписи не удалось обнаружить.Здесь учебник и рабочая тетрадь модуля 8.This course is designed to give you a practical command of spoken Standard Chinese. You will learn both to understand and to speak it. Although Standard Chinese is one language, there are differences between the particular form it takes in Beijing and the form it takes in the rest of the country. There are also, of course， significant nonlinguistic differences between regions of the country. Reflecting these regional differences, the settings for most conversations are Beijing and Taipei.This course represents a new approach to the teaching of foreign languages . In many ways it redefines the roles of teacher and student， of classwork and homework, and of text and tape. Here is what you should expect:The focus is on communicating in Chinese in practical situations 一 the obvious ones you will encounter upon arriving in China. You will be communicating in Chinese most of the time you are in class. You will not always be talking about real situations, but you will almost always be purposefully exchanging information in Chinese,This focus on communicating means that the teacher is first of all your conversational partner. Anything that forces him back into the traditional roles of lecturer and drillmaster limits your opportunity to interact with a speaker of the Chinese language and to experience the language in its full spontaneity, flexibility, and responsiveness.Using class time for communicating, you will complete other course activities out of class whenever possible. This is what the tapes are for. They introduce the new material of each unit and give you as much additional practice as possible without a conversational partner.The texts summarize and supplement the tapes, which take you through new material step by step and then give you intensive practice on what you have covered. In this course you will spend almost all your time listening to Chinese and saying things in Chinese, either with the tapes or in class.How the Course Is OrganizedThe subtitle of this course, “A Modular Approach," refers to overall organization of the materials into MODULES which focus on particular situations or language topics and which allow a certain amount of choice as to what is taught and in what order. To highlight equally significant features of the course, the subtitle could just as well have been "A Situational Approach,", “A Taped-Input Approach," or “A Communicative Approach."Ten situational modules form the core of the course:Orientation (ORN) Talking about who you are and where you are from.Biographic Information (BIO) Talking about your background, family, studies, and occupation and about your visit to China.Money (MON) Making purchases and changing money.Directions (DIR) Asking directions in a city or in a building.Transportation (TRN) Taking buses, taxis, trains, and planes, including finding out schedule information, "buying tickets, and making reservations.Arranging A Meeting (MTG) Arranging a business meeting or a social get-together, changing the time of an appointment, and declining an invitation.Society (SOC) Talking about families, relationships between people, cultural roles in traditional society, and cultural trends in modern society.Traveling in China (TRL) Making travel arrangements and visiting a kindergarten, the Great Wall，the Ming Tombs, a commune, and a factory.Life in China (LIC) Talking about daily life in Beijing street committees, leisure activities, traffic and transportation, buying and rationing, housing.Talking about the News (TAN) Talking about government and party policy changes described in newspapers: the educational system, agricultural policy, international policy, ideological policy, and policy in the arts/Each core module consists of tapes, a student textbook, and a workbook.In addition to the ten Core modules, there are also Resource modules
and Optional modules. Resource modules teach particular systems in the language, such as numbers and dates. As you proceed through, a situational core module, you will occasionally take time out to study part of a resource module. (You will begin the first three of these while studying the Orientation Module).Pronunciation and Romanization (P&R) The sound system of Chinese and the Pinyin system of romanization.
Numbers (NUM) Numbers up to five digits.
Classroom Expressions (CE) Expressions "basic to the classroom learning situation.
Time and Dates (T&D) Dates, days of the week, clock time, parts of the day.
Grammar Aspect and verb types, word order, multisyllabic verbs and ba, auxiliary verbs， complex sentences, adverbial expressions,The eight optional modules focus on particular situations:Restaurant (RST)
Hotel (HTL)
Personal Welfare (WLF)
Post Office and Telephone (PST/TEL)
Car (CAR)
Customs Surrounding Marriage, Birth, and Death (MBD)
New Year's Celebration (NYR)
Institutions and Organizations (I&O)These optional modules may be used at any time after certain core modules.