syllabus of spring 2016

1. LCH 399 Syllabus of Business Chinese II
Spring 2016
Class time Mon. 7:00-8:30 pm;
Thurs. 7:00-8:30 pm
Teacher 林孟柔老師 (Lín, Mèng-Róu) ;
戰红老師（Dr. Hong Zhan）
Platform 1. Wiziq：The instructor will send WizIQ link by Skype in advance.
2. Skype
Contact
information
² E-mail：evangeline06@hotmail.com
² WeChat: mengrou06
² Skype: mandy111976
Teaching Materials
1. 葉德明（2011）。遠東商務漢語 I（Far East Business Chinese）。台北：遠東。
2. 葉德明（2012）。遠東商務漢語 II（Far East Business Chinese）。台北：遠東。
Please do the following tasks before the class. You will need these tools to accomplish
your assignments.
1. Be the editor of this course’s blog. You will submit your assignments to the blog. The blog
is a platform for teacher and student to communicate. Teacher will make announcements,
listening and supplementary materials of the class to this blog.
2. Link: http://2016springbusinesschinese.blogspot.tw
3. Download Google Chrome for mac. WizIQ can only be opened by Google Chrome, so
please download it before class begings.
Course description
This course is designed to help students develop the most practical and essential knowledge and
skills necessary to success when doing business in Chinese-speaking societies. Students will be able
to develop reading, listening, speaking, and writing abilities, as well as practical skills of
communication in Chinese business culture.
Course objectives
• Be able to understand and apply the financial terms in business settings.
• Be able to recognize and comprehend advertisements, graphical displays, and other business
related materials in the Chinese language.

2. • Reach intermediate high level of conversational Chinese in business settings. This may
include planning business travel, price negotiation, conducting market survey, purchasing
and procurement, choosing methods of shipping, signing the contract and so on.
• Develop intermediate high level of understanding of Chinese business culture and manners
associated with doing business in the Chinese societies.
• Be able to compare the difference in Chinese and America business culture.
• Be able to write business documents in Chinese format (for example, business travel
itinerary, a market survey, letter of making request, contract, purchasing order etc.)
Grading:
上課 Attendance & In-Class Performance 25%
小考 Quizzes 10%
功課 (Assignment) 25%
* Textbook exercises 5%
* Other assignments 20%
單元考試 Unit Tests（5 tests total） 15%
期末報告 Final presentation 10%
期末考 Final Exam 15%
Grading scale:
Total: 100%
A=90-100% B=80-89 %
C=70-79% D=60-69% F=59 and below
Explanation of Grading
Attendance and Participation 25%
As a student, it is a given that you attend every class on time and stay all the time. If you miss a
class, 1% of your total grade will be taken off.
If you have a very special reason that you have to leave a class early, you must let me know before
class. Missing class does not automatically excuse you from turning in the work on time. If you
cannot come to the class due to some emergency, please notify the teacher in advance by WeChat.

3. It is common courtesy to be in class on time. Lateness will influence other following online
classes because all of online classes use the same platform. If you enter the platform after 10 minutes
the class begins, it counts as late. Lateness will lead to 10% reduction of attendance of the day.
For each class day, there are a maximum 100 points for your attendance and participation. Please
note that just showing up in class is not good enough to earn 100 points. Paying full attention in
the class and being actively involved in learning activities are the key for you to earn the maximum
points. This is how you can earn points:
1. Come to class on time and stay until the end of the class with your textbook, materials,
and assignments;
2. Pay attention in class;
3. Actively participate;
4. Do the things I ask of you efficiently;
Tardiness, doing assignments in class, and having off topic conversations will reduce your
participation grade significantly.
Quiz 10%
Each class has a quiz. The form of quiz could be listening practice, reading ads or other related
materials, written notes or speaking about assigned topic.
Assignment 25%
We will check the answers of textbook exercise in next class. Any new information about
assignment details will be posted on the blog before 24:00 p.m. after each online class. All
assignments are due at 24:00p.m. American time before the day of each class. Some of your
assignments will be listening, some recording, some reading and writing.
Please upload all your assignments (except textbook exercise) on the blog before the deadline.
Please hand in all homework from the Textbook or other hand-writing assignments by taking
photos or scanning. Email submissions will not be accepted. Late homework turned in within
three calendar days from its original due date will suffer a 10 % reduction from the total assigned
points. No homework after the three-day grace period will be accepted.
Unit Test 15%
Because the goal of all language learning is for you to be able to use the language without
looking at a book, frequent testing in all forms is the norm. Testing referred to in the following

4. section is designed to give you opportunities to review and practice. After we finish one lesson, we
will have one unit test including written and oral test.
*Written Test
Each test focuses on the content covered in the periods of class since the last test, but will also
include material from the very beginning of the Chinese study. The test may include listening
comprehension, reading comprehension, scrambled sentences, filling in the blanks, writing
characters etc. The characters to be used in answers or writing may not be given.
*Oral test
At the same day of unit test, we will also have oral test. The length of oral test will vary. The form of
oral test could be oral presentation, role-play.
Oral Test Grading Criteria:
1. Content (the PPT slide or other presented materials related to oral test/ presentation) /15
2. Correct pronunciation /20
3. Understand the questions and your answers are relevant to the questions; When do not
understand during the conversation, be able to use some coping strategies to keep conversation
going. /15
4. Fluent (no long pause; develop long sentence strings; etc.) /20
5. Thoroughness: speaking as much as you can on a particular topic, including recounting
experiences, giving full descriptions, stating and supporting opinions, etc. Based on the given
scenario or context, make appropriate response following Chinese cultural norm. /30
Final presentation 10%
You can choose one topic you are interested in related to business Chinese. You can present
what you have learned in aviation business related to the topics we have discussed. The length of the
presentation is 5-8 minutes. Before the presentation, you are required to send PPT file in advance and
discuss with the teacher at least two days before the scheduled presentation.
Final Exam 15%
The final exam will cover all the content that has been taught during this semester. It will take about
maximum two hours to complete. The exam may include listening comprehension, filling the blanks,
reading comprehension, and completing sentences. Final exam time will be scheduled.

5. Plagiarism Policy
In this course, plagiarism means copying other people’s answers in doing assignments, taking
dictations, quizzes, tests or the final; or it can be presenting other people’s work as your own. If
plagiarism occurs, you lose all the points for the work, dictation, quiz, test, or the final and may fail
the course or be expelled from the university.
上課計畫
Subject to change based on special situations. All changes will be announced through e-mail, WeChat or
Skype by Dr. Zhan and the instructor.
日期 星期 課 上什麼 功課
1 月 14 日 四
Market Surveys
《遠東商務漢語
II》Lesson 1: 市
場調查
Introduce the course and 複習
《遠東商務漢語 I》
1. Recording of
vocabulary of L1
2. Writing assignment
1 月 18 日 一 Martin Luther King Day
Holiday 放假
1 月 21 日 四
Importance of market survey
1. Preview
2. Textbook exercise
1 月 25 日 一
What is covered by a market
survey?
1. Textbook exercise
2. Make a market
survey plan
1 月 28 日 四 Market survey in your
industry/ Present your market
survey plan
1. Recording of
vocabulary of L2
2. Listening practice
2 月 1 日 一
Business Travel
《遠東商務漢語
II》Lesson 2: 行
程安排
Plan a business travel itinerary
1. Preview
2. Textbook exercise
2 月 4 日 四 What itineraries are included
in business travel?
1. Textbook exercise
2. Reading practice
2 月 8 日 一
Making schedule of business
travel
1. Textbook exercise
2. Plan a business travel
itinerary to Los
Angles
2 月 11 日 四 Business travel itinerary
presentation/
L1,2 Unit test
1. Recording of
vocabulary of L3
2. Listening practice
2 月 15 日 一 Presidents' Day
放假

6. 2 月 18 日 四
Price
Negotiations
《遠東商務漢語
II》Lesson 3:談價
錢
Express the reason of raising
price
1. Preview
2. Textbook exercise
2 月 22 日 一 Proper price negotiation
techniques and strategies
1. Textbook exercise
2. Reading practice
2 月 25 日 四 Improve price negotiation
skills in an effective manner
1. Textbook exercise
2. Writing practice
2 月 29 日 一 Comparison of price
negotiation techniques in
America and China/
Unit Test
1. Recording of
vocabulary of L4
2. Listening practice
3 月 3 日 四
Purchasing and
Procurement
《遠東商務漢語
II》Lesson 4:採購
Procedures and processes
related to procurement
1. Preview
2. Textbook exercise
3 月 7 日 一
Spring Break 放假
3 月 10 日 四
Make requirement related to
procurement
1. Textbook exercise
2. Writing practice
3 月 14 日 一
Master time limitations and
control pricing
1. Textbook exercise
2. Recording: describe
the procedure of
procurement
3 月 17 日 四
Place an order/ Unit Test
1. Recording of
vocabulary of L5
2. Listening practice
3 月 21 日 一
Methods of
Payment
《遠東商務漢語
II》Lesson 5: 付
款方式
Common methods of
payment
1. Preview
2. Textbook exercise
3 月 24 日 四
Which forms of payment is
advantageous for the buyer?
1. Textbook exercise
2. Research on terms of
payment
3 月 28 日 一 Introduction of terms of
payment
1. Textbook exercise
2. Writing practice
3 月 31 日 四
How to insist on a form of
payment? /
Unit Test
1. Recording of
vocabulary of L7
2. Listening practice

7. 4 月 4 日 一
Shipping
Merchandise
《遠東商務漢語
II》Lesson 7: 海
空運輸
Methods for calculating
shipping costs
1. Preview
2. Textbook exercise
4 月 7 日 四
Goods suitable to be
shipped by the sea
1. Textbook exercise
2. Writing practice
4 月 11 日 一
Goods suitable to be
shipped by air
1. Textbook exercise
2. Recording: describe the
pros and cons of
shipping methods
4 月 14 日 四
Comparison of shipped by
the sea and air /Unit Test
1. Recording of
vocabulary of L8
2. Listening practice
4 月 18 日 一
Signing Contract
《遠東商務漢語
II》Lesson 8: 合
同簽好了
The terms and content of
the contract
1. Preview
2. Textbook exercise
4 月 21 日 四 Negotiate a solution before
signing contract
1. Textbook exercise
2. Writing practice
4 月 25 日 一
Read and sign the contract
1. Listening exercise
2. Final Presentation
PPT file
4 月 28 日 四 Final presentation/
Review