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Foreign language and translation C2 (Chinese)

Code: 101402
Credits: 9
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Translation and Interpreting OB 2

Contact lecturer

Name :
Xiaoyan Guo
Email :
xiaoyan.guo@uab.cat

Teaching staff

Leonor Sola Comino
Xiaoyan Guo

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

This course is the continuation of the previous course Chinese language and translation C1.

At the beginning of the subject the student should be able to:

  • Recognize the basic graphic and lexical system and understand basic written expressions related to the concrete and immediate environment.
  • Use the basic graphic and lexical system and produce basic written expressions related to the concrete and immediate environment.
  • Produce and understand short oral texts and have a simple conversation
  • Pronounce and distinguish standard Chinese phonemes, syllables and tones
  • Use the Pinyin transcription system.
  • Basic principles of writing: identification of the structure of the characters, decomposition into their different elements (semantic keys, phonetic parts), order, number and type of strokes.

Objectives

The aim of this subject is to consolidate the development of the basic communicative skills of the student in Language C to prepare it for direct translation.

All course credits will be dedicated to language study.

At the end of the subject the student should be able to:

  • Understand written texts about everyday topics.
  • Produce written texts on everyday topics.
  • Understand information from short and simple oral texts about everyday topics related to the concrete and immediate environment.
  • Produce very short and simple oral texts on topics related to everyday issues of the immediate concrete environment.
  • Express himself orally and in writing in modern Chinese about his concrete and immediate environment.

Learning outcomes

  1. Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts of different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts of different fields and with specific communicative purposes.
  2. Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying graphic, lexical and morphosyntactic basic knowledge.
  3. Implementing strategies in order to understand written texts from different fields: Implementing strategies in order to comprehend written texts about general topics.
  4. Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of written texts of several fields: Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of written texts about general topics.
  5. Working effectively in teams: Working effectively in teams.
  6. Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts of different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts about general topics.
  7. Producing written texts that are appropriate to their context and possess linguistic correctness: Producing written texts about general topics with linguistic correctness.
  8. Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying phonological, lexical and morphosyntactic basic knowledge.
  9. Implementing strategies in order to understand verbal texts from different fields: Implementing strategies in order to comprehend information of short and simple verbal texts about the immediate environment.
  10. Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of verbal texts of several fields: Comprehending the sense of short and simple written texts about subjects related to the immediate environment.
  11. Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying phonological, lexical, morphosyntactic and textual basic knowledge.
  12. Implementing strategies in order to produce verbal texts from different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Implementing strategies in order to produce really short and simple verbal texts about topics related to the immediate environment.
  13. Producing verbal texts that are appropriate to their context and possess linguistic correctness: Producing really short and simple verbal texts about topics related to the immediate environment.

Contents

According to their type, the contents can be grouped as follows:

Phonological and orthographic contents:

  • pronunciation and intonation
  • the pinyin transcription system and its spelling conventions
  • basic principles of Chinese writing: identifying the structure of characters; breaking them down into their different components (radicals, semantic components and phonetic components); stroke order; number and types of strokes; and familiarization with the most common phonetic and semantic components
  • recognition and handwritten and digital production of previously studied characters, as well as more than 250 new frequently used Chinese characters
  • simplified orthography (recognition and production) and traditional orthography (recognition)

Communicative and sociocultural contents:

Mastery of the basic vocabulary and grammatical structures necessary to:

  • provide basic information about oneself: talk about daily routines, express likes, preferences and interests, and talk about hobbies and regular leisure activities
  • communicate in order to carry out simple tasks: express distances and ask for and give directions, talk about transportation, check in at a hotel, buy gifts, ask about prices, bargain, etc.
  • describe aspects of one’s surroundings: describe clothing and everyday objects, describe the parts of a house, talk about the weather and the seasons, describe landscapes, and describe people’s physical appearance, etc.
  • describe aspects of the past: talk about trips
  • talk about matters related to immediate needs: order food and drinks, talk about illnesses, give and understand simple advice in everyday contexts

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Comprehension activities 6 0.24
Translation and writing exercises 10 0.4
Study of the new characters and the new lexical structures and syntactic 30 1.2
Translation and writing exercises 10 0.4
Correction of exercises and resolution of doubts 7.5 0.3
Study of the new characters and the new lexical structures and syntactic 30 1.2
Practice writing characters 20 0.8
Preparation of oral expression activities 10 0.4
Master class 44 1.76 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Preparation of written expression activities 10 0.4
Exercise of oral comprehension 5 0.2
Production of oral production activities 6 0.24
Completion of reading comprehension activities 15 0.6
Exercise resolution 5.5 0.22

For this purpose, the chosen methodology is the following:

  •     Task learning: under the teacher's supervision and also in an autonomous way, the students make tasks and projects to reflect on the problems they may have in reading and translating Chinese and look for the way to solve them.
  •     Cooperative learning: Methodology that encourages students to socially construct knowledge in short groups to encourage students to work together in order to improve their and their classmates's learning process

The training activities that will take place in this course are divided into directed activities, supervised activities, autonomous work and assessment activities.

  • The directed activities consist in developing non-specialized texts of different typologies from the point of view of translation and oral and written production.
  • The supervised activities consistist in the realization of activities proposed by the teacher.
  • Autonomous work : about 90 hours of autonomous work are expected. The students have to prepare the vocabulary, the texts, the exercices and the grammar points indicated by the teacher, in this way the teacher will be able to direct the study to the questions about intercultural, phonetic, lexical , sintax, translation and production of oral texts and writings.
  • The assessment activities are tasks and tests that allow both teacher and students to evaluate the learning progress and to reflect on the teaching-learning process.
Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Comprehensive test covering all contents (spelling, vocabulary, grammar, syntax, pragmatics, and translation) 35% 3 0.12 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13
Teaching dossier 30% 10 0.4 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12
Partial synthesis test covering all contents (spelling, vocabulary, grammar, syntax, pragmatics, and translation) 35% 3 0.12 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12

Continuous assessment

Students must provide evidence of their progress by completing various tasks and tests. These activities are detailed in the table at the end of this section of the Study Guide.

Review

When publishing final marks prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the lecturer.

Missed/failed assessment activities

Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5.

The lecturer will inform students of the procedure involved, in writing, when publishing final marks prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for. In case of retaking, maximum grade will be 5 (Pass).

Classification as "not assessable"

In the event of the assessment activities a student has performed accounting for just 25% or less of the subject's final mark, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript.

Misconduct in assessment activities

Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for the activity in question. In the case of misconduct in more than one assessment activity, the student involved will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject. Assessment activities in which irregularities have occurred (e.g. plagiarism, copying, impersonation) are excluded from recovery.


In this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is not permitted at any stage of the assessment activities. Any work that includes AI-generated content will be considered a breach of academic integrity and will be graded a 0, regardless of any disciplinary proceedings that may be initiated.


Single assessment

This subject may be assessed under the single assessment system in accordance with the terms established in the academic regulations of the UAB and the assessment criteria of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.

Students must make an online request within the period established by the faculty and send a copy to the teacher responsible for the subject, for the record.

Single assessment will be carried out in person on one day during week 16 or 17 of the semester. The Academic Management Office will publish the exact date and time on the faculty website.

On the day of the single assessment, teaching staff will ask the student for identification, which should be presented as a valid identification document with a recent photograph (student card, DNI/NIE or passport).

Single assessment activities

The final grade for the subject will be calculated according to the following percentages:

Test of listening comprehension: 20%

Test of reading comprehension: 20%

Test of oral expression: 20%

Test of composition: 20%

Test of grammar: 20%

Grade revision and resit procedures for the subject are the same as those for continual assessment. See the section above in this study guide.


In this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is not permitted at any stage of the assessment activities. Any work that includes AI-generated content will be considered a breach of academic integrity and will be graded a 0, regardless of any disciplinary proceedings that may be initiated.

Bibliography

Textbook

  • Qi, Shaoyan; Zhang, Jie. 2020. Discover China: Student’s Book 2. Oxford: Macmillan Education; Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
  • Wang, Dan. 2020. Discover China: Workbook 2. Oxford: Macmillan Education; Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Other reference books

  • Álvarez, José Ramón. 2000. La pronunciación del chino hablado (putonghua) para hispanohablantes. Taipei: Lanbridge Press cop.
  • Casas-Tost, Helena; Rovira-Esteva, Sara (Eds.). 2015. Guía de estilo para el uso de palabras de origen chino. Madrid: Adeli. Accés digital en accés obert: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/180644
  • Casas-Tost, H., & Rovira-Esteva, S. (Eds.). 2021. Guia d’estil per al tractament de mots xinesos en català. Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Cultura. Format digital en accés obert: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/133473
  • Casas, Helena; Rovira, Sara; Suárez, Anne-Hélène. 2024. Lengua china para traductores: 学中文,做翻译 (Vols. I y II). Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB. (Materials, 188 i 198). Format digital en accés obert: https://publicacions.uab.cat/llibres/lengua-china-para-traductores-volumen-7a-ed
  • Fisac, Taciana. 2024. Claves de la gramática china. Biblioteca de China Contemporánea, 35. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra.
  • López Calvo, Francisco; Zhao, Baoyan. 2013. Guía esencial de la lengua china. Madrid: Adeli Ediciones.
  • Martínez-Robles, David. 2007. La lengua china: historia, signo y contexto. Una aproximación sociocultural. Barcelona: Editorial UOC.
  • Rovira-Esteva, Sara. 2010. Lengua y escritura chinas: Mitos y realidades. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra.
  • Xu, Zhenghui; Zhou, Minkang. 2008. Gramática china. Materials, 30. Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB.

Dictionaries

  • Zhou, Minkang. 1999. Diccionaris de l’Enciclopèdia. Diccionari Català-Xinès, Xinès-Català. Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • Zhou, Minkang. 2006. Diccionario del español y el chino. Barcelona: Herder.

Online tools

Software


Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE

Type of teaching Group Language Semester Shift
(PAUL) Classroom practices 1 Spanish second semester morning-mixed