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Middle School Curriculum

  • Chinese
Novice High A Chinese

Novice High A Chinese is a continuation of Novice Mid Chinese and is a communicative Novice High course according to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages World Readiness Standards. Students may anticipate learning a significant amount of new vocabulary, sentence patterns, and idiomatic expressions using simplified Chinese characters. Skits, oral presentations, writing assignments, and cultural activities are also part of this course. The course also integrates the four linguistic modalities: listening, reading, speaking and writing. The goal is to allow students to develop communicative strategies that will allow them to interact with linguistic material and speakers in the target language.

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