Chinese Individualized Instruction

CHINESE INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION (I.I.) Syllabus

(Autumn 2008)

Chinese I.I. Classroom: Hagerty Hall 120H/L
Tel.: (614) 292-7060
Web Site: http://deall.osu.edu/courses/c-lang/II/default.cfm (If Chinese I. I. Web page does not conform to this orientation packet, please stick to this packet)
Listserv: You are required to subscribe to this mailing list (see Section 10)

Faculty supervisor: GTA Coordinator GTA Instructors:

CONTENT INDEX

1. Introduction - Page 2
2. Note on Disabilities - Page 3
3. The 15-minute session - Page 3
4. Pronunciation and Romanization Tests - Page 5
5. How to Schedule Appointments - Page 6
6. Textbooks - Page 9
7. Audio Programs - Page 10
8. Agendas - Page 11
9. Grading Policy - Page 11
10. Credit Hour Adjustment— « Contract Week » - Page 12
11. Timely Completion of Credits - Page 13
12. Academic Misconduct Statement - Page 14
13. How to Use Mailing List (Listserv) - Page 14
14. Common Problems - Page 14
15. Get Started : To-Do List - Page 15
16. Chinese II Audio Recording Programs - Page 16

1.  Introduction:

ABOUT THE COURSE
Chinese Individualized Instruction (I.I.) is designed to develop speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities in Chinese. There is a regular track of 101.51-104.51 that concentrates on speaking and listening but also includes some reading and writing. A special reading and writing track (R&W) is offered under the course numbers 102.51-103.51, 211.51, 311.51 and 511.51 for those with listening and speaking backgrounds who are interested in only reading and writing. Persons taking the reading and writing track will be given EM credit for 101.51 upon passing all 6 Pronunciation and Romanization tests with a minimum score of 80%, and will begin from 102.51; otherwise there will be no difference shown on your grade transcript whether you take Chinese I.I. the regular track or the reading and writing track. If you believe you should be in the latter track, please contact the coordinator.

In I.I., you will do most of the learning on your own. The following pages contain important information relevant to this program. If you have questions after reading this handout, please consult an instructor for further information.

WHAT IS EXPECTED OF STUDENTS
Taking Chinese is a brave and serious undertaking. The goal of this course is to teach students to communicate in a culturally appropriate manner using the Chinese they have studied. For spoken Chinese, this means being able to use appropriate expressions quickly, smoothly, and correctly. For reading, this means being able to read rapidly, smoothly, and with comprehension of both the linguistic and the cultural meaning of the text, and you should also be able to summarize orally or in writing what you have read. For writing, this means being able to write the characters you have studied correctly and reasonably quickly. You are expected to be able to communicate with the material that you have studied. This cannot be achieved by just reading or listening to the lessons. Every point must be studied, practiced, reviewed, and practiced again. If, for example, you are required to memorize a dialog, you must practice it - perform it out loud - until you can perform it fluently and accurately as if you were playing a part in a movie.

Most of the learning in the speaking courses is done with the audio programs. The audio programs are the primary materials for instruction. The textbooks are secondary. To use the audio materials efficiently, you must practice each dialog and drill in a normal speaking voice until you can perform it smoothly. Do not move on until you can respond to each drill in the time allotted in the audio. Some of the drills are easy, some are difficult, but all are manageable. Concentrate especially hard on imitating the voice, accent, and tones of the native speakers in the audio.

We expect that you will develop skills in Mandarin to communicate across ethnic, cultural, ideological and national boundaries and to acquire an understanding of Chinese interpersonal behavioral culture and related thought patterns. At the end of each course, you should be able to perform in the language and culture at a level suitable for continuing on to the next course in the sequence or, on the higher levels, to engage directly and successfully in Chinese society in Chinese.

2. Note on Disabilities

Any student who feels s/he may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact the coordinating instructor privately to discuss their specific needs. Please contact the Office for Disability Services (614-292-3307) in Room 150 Pomerene Hall to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities.

3. The 15-minute session

You will be meeting with your instructors in two types of 15-minute meetings: ACT sessions and FACT sessions. In an ACT session you will have an opportunity to perform the Chinese you have learned. The session is conducted in Chinese—no English is allowed, so be sure you are very familiar with the Instructional Expressions from Unit 0 of Chinese: Communicating in the Culture. You and the instructor will be engaged in a series of conversations and exercises designed to have you communicating in Chinese. To get the most out of these sessions, prepare that day’s lesson thoroughly and review frequently material you have already studied. Below are the different types of ACT sessions you will encounter.

Dialogue Performance:  Student performs the memorized dialogue(s) with the instructor. Student may receive some correction on the dialogue. The instructor then leads the student in communicative activities based on the dialogue and drills in the lesson.

Comprehension Dialogue (CD): Instructor plays the comprehension dialogues or unit dialogue and pauses to ask the student questions based on the conversation. Students prepare for the session by listening to the recording many times and thoroughly understanding the content. Students may also be asked to prepare questions based on the dialog(s).

Unit Review (UR): Instructor leads the student in activities and drills that incorporate all the material from that unit.

Reading: Student will read aloud to the instructor from the DeFrancis Character Text (CTBC) or Read Chinese (RC). Students will answer the instructor’s questions based on that text. Students may also ask questions.

Writing: You do not need to make an appointment. Bring an ID to the I.I. center when it is open and inform the front desk receptionist that you wish to test your writing and for what lesson. The receptionist will provide the paper, a CD recording, and a CD player. Using these materials, and with no reference to your textbook, you will listen to the recording and write out the dialogue from the tested unit and turn it in to the receptionist. Do not write more than one page of characters (even if there is more on the recording), and do not leave spaces between sentences. DO use proper punctuation. The main writing text is DeFrancis Character Text for Beginning Chinese unless otherwise noted in the agendas. It is your responsibility to understand the assignments or ask us if you don’t. You are required to sign up for a FACT session before you do your first writing assignment so that an instructor can make sure you know what to do for that and future written work. Students in 101.51-103.51 must write in traditional characters, while students in 211.51 and above may write in either traditional or simplified, as long as it is consistent within the piece. Please do not mix simplified and traditional together. The writing will not be graded if you fail to follow these guidelines.

Summary: Student summarizes in written Chinese characters the dialogue for that unit (the paper for summaries can be downloaded from Carmen). The summary should include ALL the main ideas in the dialogue, and should not have any sentences that are word-for-word identical to the original dialogue.

Composistion: For 211, 311, 511, you will be required to write a composition occasionally. The composition should contain at least 340 characters (17 lines) and the paper can be downloaded from Carmen.

FACT:A FACT session allows the student to ask questions in English about grammar and vocabulary. The materials provide detailed explanations of both, but you may run into points that require further clarification. FACT sessions are not mandatory and confer no credit.

Signing up for a FACT class
Students must tell the instructors before a session starts if they want the session to be a FACT session. They can not change an ACT session to a FACT if the ACT session has already started.

Second, if the student cannot pass an ACT session, and so wants to change it to a FACT session, we will count it as a "non-pass," and next time you will come to redo the same session (redo rules are explained later).

Third, except during the first credit of 101.51, students may sign up for only one FACT session per unit.

4.  Pronunciation and Romanization (only for 101.51 and R & W Track students)

During Chinese 101.51 you will learn a system for representing the sounds of the Chinese language with the Roman alphabet. This system is called pinyin. You will learn this system from the Pronunciation and Romanization Module (P&R) and the audio that goes with it. There are six sections. Four of these are in Chinese: Communicating in the Culture, and the remainder will be given to you as handouts. For students in the R & W track, we will give you all 6 sections as handouts. After you master each section you must pass a computerized diagnostic test. There are six of these tests and they are graded pass/fail. To pass you must score 80% or above. You may take each test as many times as you need. When you pass the test please print out the results and take them to the I.I. receptionist. Make sure your name is on your P&R when you give it to the I.I. receptionist. Failure to have a legible name on the printout will force the instructors to require you to take the test again. 101.51 students must take the tests along with your progress in Units 1 and 2. You may not start Unit 2 before you finish P&R #5. Likewise, you must finish P&R #6 before beginning Unit 3. R & W track students must pass all 6 tests before you may receive credit for 101.51. The tests are online at the following URLs:

For Mac OS: http://chineseflagship.osu.edu/pr/ChinesePR.dmg.gz
For Windows: http://asay.byu.edu/PR_setup.exe

When you logon to the website for the P&R tests, it will ask for your name and a PIN. For the PIN, just enter a number you can remember so you can use it for future P&R tests.

These sites require a first-time registration name and license code:

Registration name: Ohio State University
License code: pr1158177435st

5. How to schedule appointments

We use an on-line sign-up method for making appointments. First, open the II scheduling homepage http://www.osuii.org/ (We suggest you make a bookmark for the I.I. home page). Then click on "Chinese" under "students" and then "Log In." You will see a prompt asking you for your username and your password. and your password is your birth month and birth year, which must be four digits. For example, if you were born on July 4, 1987, your password would be 0787 (this username and password is only valid in our online scheduling system). Note: You may sign up for up to 8 appoitments/week during the first 5 weeks but only 6/week during the last 5 weeks of the quarter. Signup will be done on a weekly basis, with appointments for each week available on the preceding Thursday at 10PM.

If the on-line signup system fails, then we will give you notice via the listserv ASAP and the appointment book will be available at the Receptionist’s Desk in the I. I. Center at that time.

The number of assignments you need to complete per week depends upon the number of credit hours you registered for. Roughly speaking, five credit hours require five ACT assignments per week. Four credit hours require four ACT assignments per week, three credits require three, and so forth. The content of each assignment can vary, and it is occasionally possible for a well-prepared student to complete more than one assignment in a single appointment.

NOTE:  We encourage students to complete their credits as soon as possible, so you may take the maximum number of appointments per week no matter how few credits you have enrolled for, and thereby finish early.

Key Points on Scheduling Your Sessions:

• All stages MUST be done in order, including reading and writing. For those levels in which there are writing assignments, you will not be allowed to continue to the next unit before completing the previous unit’s writing/summary work
• The next appointment you have with an instructor after completing a writing/summary assignment will begin with review and discussion of that assignment. Depending on your writing performance, this discussion may require the whole session or it may only take a few minutes. In the latter case, you may proceed to the next stage during the same session. The instructor may inform you that you must redo the assignment before you may receive credit for it, in which case, the instructor will make a note on your grade sheet, but you may still proceed to the next stage.
• Remember, you do not sign up for an appointment to do a writing or summary session.
• Should you fail to show up for an appointment, this will be recorded as a No-show. A “no-show” means that you either, (a) did not show up for a scheduled appointment, (b) failed to cancel a scheduled appointment at least 24 hours prior to the appointment, (c) show up 5 or more minutes late for an appointment. You may have one no-show per quarter without any direct consequences. On your second and third no-shows, any existing appointments will be erased and you will be unable to sign up for any appointments for a period of three dyas starting on the day after your no-show. On your fourth and all subsequent no-shows you will receive a score of zero for the missed ACT session, any existing appointments will be erased, and you will be unable to sign up for any appointments for a period of three days starting on that day. There will be no opportunity to make up or improve a score of zero received due to excessive no-shows.
• You may cancel up to 24 hours in advance of your scheduled appointment without incurring a no-show. Cancellations after that time are considered no-shows unless another student takes advantage of your absence by taking the slot through the online offer board.
• Do not be late. There is no penalty for lateness up to 4 minutes. However, every 2 sessions to which you show up 5 or more minutes late equals one no-show. When you are late, you may complete as much material as the instructor can reasonably cover in the time left, but the half no-show will still be recorded, and the session will end on time—it will not be extended to compensate for your lateness.
• Plan ahead. There are always more open sessions during the first half of a quarter than during the latter half. You may not ask instructors for extra sessions at the end of the quarter if you run out of time. If you are not able to finish what you contracted, you should reduce your credit hours before the end of the sixth week (contract week - see section 8). Chinese I.I. normally does not issue “I” grades (incomplete). For any incomplete course, an E will be entered as your grade. It is your responsibility to pace yourself so that you are not left with an E.
• Students who begin the quarter registered for only 1 credit hour must finish their work by the end of the 5^th week. Failure to do so will result in reduction of the final grade by one letter grade.

When scheduling appointments at the front desk (not on-line), you are required to observe the following rules:

• Use pencil only to schedule your appointments
• You may schedule up to two appointments on the same day. To schedule more than two on the same day, obtain permission first from one of the instructors.
• If you want a FACT session, if you are doing two stages in one 15 minute session, or you make any changes to the regular order of the sessions, indicate so in the appointment book next to your name.

* You may cancel your written appointment at any time 24 hours before the appointment by erasing it in the sign-up book or calling the front desk. If you cancel your appointment after the deadline, it will be considered a “no-show”.

6. Textbooks

Consult the agenda for your course to see which materials are required for the credits you are preparing to study
(1 credit hour = 1 unit)

Regular Track
101.51
All at SBX:

1. Galal Walker: Chinese: Communicating in Culture (CCC) Field Test Edition, Units 0-2
2. John DeFrancis: Beginning Chinese (NOTE: DeFrancis texts needed from 3rd credit hour on)
3. John DeFrancis: Character Text for Beginning Chinese

102.51
At SBX:

1. Galal Walker: Chinese: Communicating in Culture (CCC) Performance Text, Vol 1,Units 0-2
2. Galal Walker: Chinese: Communicating in Culture (CCC) Performance Text, Vol 2, Unit 3
3. Galal Walker: Student Manual For Individualized Instruction: Beginning Mandarin Chinese
   1. Unit 8
   2. Unit 9
4. John DeFrancis: Beginning Chinese
5. John DeFrancis: Character Text for Beginning Chinese

103.51

1. Walton: Student Guide to Beginning Chinese (covers units 10-17)
2. John DeFrancis: Beginning Chinese Required
3. John DeFrancis: Character Text for Beginning Chinese Required
4. DVD: Strange Friends (Moshengde Pengyou) for sale in Hagerty 198
5. Script for Strange Friends

104.51
At SBX:

1. John DeFrancis: Beginning Chinese
2. John DeFrancis: Character Text for Beginning Chinese
3. Richard Chang: Read Chinese, Book Two
4. Galal Walker: A Study Guide to Read Chinese, Book Two

Reading and Writing Track

All textbooks are available at SBX bookstore except those indicated.

102.51-103.51

1. John DeFrancis: Character Text for Beginning Chinese

610.51, 611.51, 612.51

• Jianqi Wang: Tell It Like It Is

7. Audio Programs

Chinese audio recordings (originally made from tapes) are available online at http://telr.osu.edu/languagelab/.  You can use your OSU user name and password to access these audio programs.

If you have queestions about what files to use, please refer to the “tape list” document on the I.I. homepage

8. Agendas

Agendas tell you what to prepare for each appointment. Agendas are available in Carmen. Please visit Carmen to download the agendas or request a hardcopy from our instructors. Reading and Writing track students should request a copy of grading sheets of the relevant courses from instructors and use them as agendas.

9. Grading Policy

You will be graded on the number of credit hours you have agreed to complete. During the fifth and sixth weeks of the quarter, you have the option to add or drop credit hours. This is done by means of a contract in which your goals in terms of credit hours may be adjusted. Since you may adjust your credit hours during the fifth and sixth weeks of the quarter, it is the policy of Chinese I.I. not to grant incompletes for work not finished except under extraordinary circumstances. If you do not complete every item for the credit hours you have contracted, you will receive an “E” in the course. Hence, it is important that you keep yourself well-informed about course requirements and your status in the course with regard to what you need to complete.

In most ACT sessions you will receive two grades on a scale of 2.5-4. One grade is for your performance on the memorized dialog, and the other is for your performance on the conversation and exercises during the rest of the session. Comprehension dialogs, unit reviews, readings and writings only receive one grade. The following are the criteria for the grading scale:


If your initial performance is below the 2.5 level, no grade will be recorded for that session and you will be asked to repeat that stage the next time you come in. For each stage, you are allowed a maximum of two redo sessions. In the first redo session, if your performance is still lower than the 2.5 level, then you can redo the stage for the second time. In the second redo session, however, no matter what grade you get, that grade will be recorded as the final grade for the stage. Once a grade is recorded for an ACT session, it is final – you may not redo it. Written assignments may be redone once for a better grade.

Your final grade for the course is simply the average of all your daily grades. There is no midterm or final exam. The grading scale for final grades are:

            A         3.7-4.0             A-        3.5-3.69           B+       3.3-3.49
            B          3.0-3.29           B-        2.5-2.9

NOTE: Grades for most I.I. courses are now on the Carmen grade-keeping system, which may be found at http://telr.osu.edu/carmen/. Some of these will be worth 8 points per session instead of 4. To determine your grade on this system, the following scale applies:

            A        7.4-8.0            A-        7-7.39           B+       6.6-6.99
            B          6-6.59           B-        5-5.99

10. Credit Hour Adjustment – “Contract Week”

You may ask to increase or decrease the number of credit hours in your contract any time after the sixth Monday (November 3rd, 2008) in the quarter andbefore the close of business on the seventh Friday in the quarter (November 14th, 2008).  Please note that the Registrar currently does not grant refunds after the fifth Friday in a quarter. If, therefore, you find that you need to decrease the number of credit hours and plan to ask for a refund from the Registrar, your request to I.I. must be made before that day.

Please follow the directions below:

1. Print and fill out the "Adjustment of Credit" forms and sign them.
   (The forms are on the web: http://wmcc.osu.edu/ii_adjust.pdf)
2. Have the I.I. coordinator or an instructor sign them.
3. Get Mr. Knicely’s signature. You can leave the forms in Mr. Knicely's mailbox at HH 398 and take the forms back from the departmental secretary at HH 398;
4. Leave one copy with the Chinese instructor;
5. Deliver one copy to your college's registration office and keep the third copy for your own reference.

NOTE:
Bring your forms to our Chinese I.I. instructors in person. Do not leave the form at the I.I. front desk because this could lead to a delay of the completion of your form.

Your college is responsible for officially changing your credit hours. It is your responsibility to make sure that both your college/registrar and chinese I.I. have copies of your contract adjustment. Failure to inform both sides of your change may result in grading difficulties that take your and our time to resolve.

After you have submitted the contract form to your college, please check your online registration record to see if the record (the course level and the number of credit hours) has been changed correctly. If not, please contact your college and registration office as soon as possible. If you do not know how to check your registration record, please contact your academic advisor.

Adjusting your credits to zero will result in a “W” in your transcript.

NOTE: I.I. administrators will no longer facilitate credit hour adjustments after the quarter has ended. It is your responsibility to check your official record of course registration online or with your adviser in a timely manner to assure that you are enrolled for the correct number of credits. For example, if you complete 5 credits but are officially enrolled for only 1, you must enroll for the remaining 4 credits the following quarter—we will not add them for you. If you complete fewer credits than you are enrolled for, you will receive an ‘Incomplete’ or an E at the administrator’s discretion.

11. Timely Completion of Credits

All students are expected to be responsible for completing credits in a timely manner. You are strongly advised to devise a practical schedule for completing the material by the end of the course, and to begin working on it immediately. Although there is more scheduling flexibility in I.I. than in the classroom, each stage will require 1-2 hours of preparation and a good performance with your instructor to earn a passing grade. Procrastination can seriously hinder your ability to complete your credits. NOTE: A Lack of Preparation on Your Part is Not an Emergency on Our Part. Do not expect special treatment if you fail to heed this advice.

• There will be no appointments available during the week of final exams, so be sure to finish your contract (all of your work) by the end of the last week of regular classes.

12. Academic Misconduct Statement

It is the responsibility of the Committee on Academic Misconduct to investigate or establish procedures for the investigation of all reported cases of student academic misconduct. The term “academic misconduct” includes all forms of student academic misconduct wherever committed; illustrated by, but not limited to, cases of plagiarism and dishonest practices in connection with examinations. Instructors shall report all instances of alleged academic misconduct to the committee (Faculty Rule 3335-5-487). For additional information, see the Code of Student Conduct at http://studentaffairs.osu.edu/resource_csc.asp.

13. How to use the Mailing List (Listserv)

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14. Common problems

1. There are no appointments during examination week, the week following the last day of instruction (check the university calendar to confirm the exact date of the last day of instruction). You must finish ALL stages of your contract, including your last writing/summary assignment, before the end of business on the last day of instruction.
2. If you register for Chinese I.I. and decide to drop later on, do not neglect any step in the drop/withdrawal procedure. If the registrar has you registered for Chinese I.I. at the end of the quarter, but you never went, you will get an E, and you will have to do troublesome paperwork to get rid of it.
3. The summary assignment in the reading and writing track is not quoting the dialogue and saying “so-and-so said, '…' ”. It is summarizing the important points in the dialogue.
4. 4. To type a u with an umlaut (ü) in the P&R test, type apple+u and then u again. If you want an example, click on the help file tab at the top of the P&R screen.
5. 5. You must score 80% or above to turn in a P∓R test for credit. If at first you do not score 80%, try, try again.

15. Getting Started: To-Do-List

1. Subscribe to the mailing list
2. Purchase (at least) the first textbook for the course you are taking
3. Make appointments for Week 2
4. Obtain the agenda for the unit you are going to learn
5. Study the new materials with the audio files under the guidance of the agenda until you are ready to perform the dialog and exercises with ease
6. Show up for the appointment
7. Check your status online to make sure that you are signed up for the desired number of credit hours. The default setting for I.I. courses is one credit, so you may think you are registered for multiple credits, but in reality be registered for only one. You may add credits during Credit Hour Adjustment Week or Mr. Knicely can sign a Course Enrollment Permission Form for you to add them earlier in the quarter.

* For 101.51 students: your first meeting with the instructors will be focused on all of the Instructional Expressions. So be sure you practice all stages of Unit 0 with the tapes until you are comfortable with what you say and what you hear.

16. Chinese II Audio Recording Programs

https://languagelab.it.ohio-state.edu/secure/index.php?id=1058

Textbook	Recordings
畫上的美人 The Lady in the Painting (LP)	Chi 02 → 1a (page 1 to page 41) Chi 02 → 1b (page 42 to page 80) *No recording for the preface
初級漢語課本 Beginning Chinese (BC)	Chi defbc (L1-L24)
初級漢語課本漢字本 Character Text for Beginning Chinese (CTBC) (The content of this is the same as Beginning Chinese, so both books use the same tape series—Chi defbc.)	Chi defbc (L1-L17)
Read Chinese (RC)	Chi rcII
A New Text for A Modern Chinese (NTMC)	Chi ntmc (All)
新聞廣播 (Shumianyu)	Chi rjc (All)
陌生的朋友 (MSDPY)	Chi 02 → 4a – 4b

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