Design of Short Term Intensive Business Mandarin Curriculum

• Main Author: 林雪芳
• Other Authors: 信世昌
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1999
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22106003800662245523

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 華語文教學研究所 === 87 === Mandarin is the most commonly used language in the world. With the healthy economical prospects of the four main Chinese societies-Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore, courses catering to people learning Mandarin as a second language in school, or as a foreign language are also enjoying a healthy boom. The new learners have more practical motives, mainly due to the potential of the language and the Chinese societies'' economical prowers. This creates a huge demand for Business Mandarin. At the same time, as the pace of life pick up with social and technological advancements, the amount of time that can be used for learning languages shorten, the overall result being that short term intensive courses are more suited to reality. This research concerns itself with the design of short term intensive Business Mandarin courses. The research methods makes use of the "Development research method," and at the same time, the "Quality Development research method" and the "Action research method." After showing that short term intensive Business Mandarin courses are necessary and that a well-designed course needs cardful planning beforehand, I''ll try to derive a reasonable conclusion based on logic and practicality. For the logic part, six cases related to the design of language courses will be analyzed in chapter three. Their common Characteristics will be used to find the basic sturctural constructs, after which, using lateral formula analysis and many important references related to Business Mandarin and intensive Mandarin courses, the usefulness of these constructs in short term intensive Business Mandarin will be Proved. For the practicality part, besides the experiecnce gained from going to Beijing personally to attend the "Associated Colleges in China" two months intensive Mandarin course, the detailed data gathered on the contents and characteristics of Mandarin/Chinese inteensive courses from America''s famous Mandarin/Chinese learning center"Middlebury College Language Institute," "Indiana University-East Asian Summer Language Institute," not to mention Taiwan''s "Inteernational Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University," "Mandarin Training Center at National Taiwan Normal University," and also Germany''s "The Institute of CHinese Studies University of Heidelberg, Germany" are used to prove my point the bases in which my hypothese holds, and as the foundation for comparative analysis. After an comparative analysis of the logic and pracitcality parts is make, chapter five will talk on the research results; mainly the structural constructs of short term intensive Business Mandarin, and with the addition of detailed explanation on the design process of the courses through the consideration of "People," "Events," "Things," etc. Lastly, the workability of the hypotheses mentioned will be tested by designing a typical course using case simulation.