Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language MATCFL

[This curriculum is applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2018/19.]

The subject list is subject to revision. Offering of subjects is subject to the availability of teaching staff and viable enrolment numbers. Some elective subjects will not be offered every year. The Department has the discretion on the offering semester and class quota, which is limited by classroom capacity.

Subject Code	Subject Title	No. of Credits
CBS532 ¹/CBS539¹	Description of Chinese I: Words and Sentences	3
CBS530 ¹ / CBS533¹	Description of Chinese II: Sounds and Script	3
CBS574	Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Learning	3
CBS572B	Methodology of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language I	3
CBS5T01	Professional Ethics and Academic Integrity	1

¹CBS532 and CBS539 are mutually exclusive. CBS530 and CBS533 are also mutually exclusive.

Credit transfer can be granted for compulsory subjects on a case-by-case basis subject to prior approval.

Language Education

Subject Code	Subject Title	No. of Credits
CBS5020	Special Education Needs in Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing	3
CBS5021	Special Education Needs Associated with Cognitive, Physical and Sensory Disorders	3
CBS506	Introduction to Educational Linguistics	3
CBS512	Introduction to Chinese Language Testing	3
CBS528B	The Development and Implementation of School-Based Chinese Language Curriculum in Hong Kong	3
CBS549	Teaching the Uses of Media for Teaching Chinese to Foreigners	3
CBS559	Supervised International Chinese Teaching Internship II	9
CBS576 ^#	MATCFL Dissertation	9
CBS581	Teaching Chinese Grammar to Non-native Speakers	3
CBS586	Teaching of Chinese Characters and Words to Non-native Learners	3
CBS588	Teaching of Chinese: Listening and Speaking	3
CBS595	Supervised Local Internship in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language	3

Language Sciences

Subject Code	Subject Title	No. of Credits
CBS500	Semantics and Pragmatics	3
CBS503	Language in Society	3
CBS505B	Research Methods in Language Teaching and Language Studies	3
CBS509	Sign Language and Linguistics	3
CBS514	Introduction to Cantonese Studies	3
CBS516	Contrastive Analysis	3
CBS529	Chinese Lexical Semantics and Corpus Linguistics	3
CBS590	Multimedia Applications for Language Professionals and Translators	3
CBS592	Psycholinguistics	3
CBS596	Neurolinguistics	3
CBS598	Experimental Phonetics	3

Others

Subject Code	Subject Title	No. of Credits
CBS5413	Digital Media Communication	3
CBS543	Selected Readings of the Eight Writers of the Tang and Song Era	3
CBS544	Poetry of the Tang and Song Era	3
CBS546	Hong Kong Literature	3
CBS548	Contemporary Chinese Society through Literature	3
CBS554	Introduction to Chinese Culture and Classics	3
CBS561	Translation: Text and Context	3
CBS562	Interpreting: Principles	3
CBS564	Translation: Discourse and the Translator	3
CBS565	Interpreting: Consecutive	3
CBS566	Translation Studies	3
CBS568	Advanced Translation	3
CBS582	Advanced Legal Translation	3
CBS591	Intercultural Communication	3
CBS597	Advanced Liaison Interpreting	3
CBS599	Statistical Methods in Language Research	3
ENGL554	Drama for Language Learning	3

^# Students who wish to register for the MATCFL Dissertation must have successfully completed 6 credits from the compulsory subjects with an overall GPA of 3.50 or above; and having registered the outstanding credits of compulsory subjects concurrently in the same semester of same academic year; and have obtained permission from the Programme Leader.

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