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COURSE SYLLABUS
VIETNAMESE 110/515
ELEMENTARY VIETNAMESE
Yale
University
Fall 2008 to Spring 2009
Instructor: Quang Phu
Van
Time: Monday to Friday, 9:25 AM
- 10:15 AM
Room: Temple
370, CLS 215
Office Hours: Monday, 11:00-12:00
, 314 Luce Hall, and by appointments
Telephone: 432-5097, e-mail: quang.van@yale.edu
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The objective of this course is to help students acquire a basic
working ability in Vietnamese with attention paid to integrated skills such
as speaking, listening, writing (Roman script), and reading. To this end,
the lessons are centered around short dialogues on situations of daily
life. However, approaches and activities are varied, appealing to different
learning strategies. Students practice real communication using materials
that include newspaper and magazine articles, simple songs and poems,
games, maps, audio tapes, videos, books, pictures, etc. Each lesson in the
textbook includes dialogue, vocabulary, grammar practice and development,
task-based activities, narratives and situation dialogues to increase
comprehension, and exercises to help students develop reading and writing
skills. Participation is needed. No previous knowledge of or experience
with Vietnamese language is required.
TEXTBOOK & MATERIAL REQUIRED:
1-Let’s Speak Vietnamese by
Le Pham Thuy
Kim (contact the instructor)
2-Activities Manual by Le
Pham Thuy-Kim
(contact the instructor)
GOALS OF THE COURSE
LISTENING
Students develop listening skill at a simple level. Listening
activities are aided by visual materials, e.g. pictures, diagrams,
CD-ROM’s, audiotapes, and videos. They learn to detect distinctive
consonants, vowel sounds and tones. At the end of the course, students can
comprehend familiar sentence patterns and vocabulary spoken at a-slow speed
by a native speaker.
ORAL SKILLS Students learn individual
sounds, places and manners of articulation, and have a fair command of
Vietnamese singled and combined consonants and vowels. Students develop
speaking skills at a simple level, using basic vocabulary to perform simple
tasks such as asking for directions, dates and times, greetings, ordering
foods, and so on. The oral activities include regular work on pronunciation
and tones. Students are encouraged to practice, use, and express what they
learn. Singing, reciting poems, chanting, role-playing, games, and other
task-based activities in Vietnamese are meant to help students improve
their speaking skills. By the end of the course, students should be able to
understand simple questions and answers, simple statements, and simple
face-to-face conversations in Vietnamese. They will have the ability to
speak in Vietnamese using basic sentence patterns in simple conversations
about everyday activities and concrete objects.
READING
Students improve their reading ability by developing their vocabulary,
grammar, and meaning-based knowledge. Students read simplified authentic
and semi-authentic texts appropriate to their level such as greeting cards,
bus schedules, maps, personal ads, and short newspaper articles, and other
types of texts. Students learn to identify the main points of a simple
reading passage, some specific information, and begin building a foundation
of vocabulary.
WRITING AND GRAMMAR Frequent writing practice
ranges from one sentence to half-a-page paragraph. Students learn basic
grammar that appears in the dialogues and the reading texts and grasp the
basic structure of Vietnamese sentences. Emphasis will be placed on using
appropriate forms of address and reference, common kinship terms, and
classifiers. In addition, students begin to use the points covered in the
course and to recognize some of the mistakes that are common in their own writing
and to correct these errors. Practice is oral as well as written
(dictation, drills, role-playing, and other writing activities).
SOCIETY AND CULTURE Aspects
of Vietnamese society and culture are reflected in the course materials and
students will occasionally learn about common life experiences of
Vietnamese people such as values, norms, routines, and facts.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1-Class attendance and
participation
10%
2-Homework and
assignments
20%
3-Quizzes (10/12, drop the 2 lowest scores) 20%
4-Daily
journal 10%
5-Mid-term exams
(1) 20%
5-Final
Exam 20%
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100%
Please note:
1-Absence from a quiz or a test will be excused only if students provide
written proof of the reason for the absence. The instructor is not required
to give make-up.
2-Homework and assignments have to be
turned in on time.
3-Faithful attendance and punctuality are required.
4-You will have to attend at least two
mandatory conferences in my office during the term. We will meet
individually to talk about your progress and concerns one-on-one.
5-The 2 lowest scores on the quizzes will be dropped.
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