User Guide

Welcome to China Tour!

Congratulations! Now you and your partner have finished your first-year Chinese study and you are ready to use what you have learned to work out a plan for a China tour. Your task this semester will be follow the scenarios and justify all decisions you will make about how long you are going to stay in China, where you are going to visit, what kind of people you would like to see and a lot more. You will find it motivating and rewarding by solving the problems presented in each scenario and extensively using the rich resources given about Chinese language, Chinese culture, Chinese people ... You will not only learn and use the language, you will also probe into so much more related to the language.

You will be given embedded data and also resources where you can find further information. You will also have opportunitites to publish and discuss your journal, which is part of the requirement for this class, to negotiate with local Chinese travel agencies the US and get advice from China travel issue experts in China. Your teacher will be around to help but not to instruct you or dictating information. You are responsible for finding the information and making all the justifications yourselves.

You will be expected to:

• Work collaboratively in groups of two or three to work out plans and itineray together.
• Use target language-Chinese to conduct all activities following the given situations.
• Browse related hyperlinked Chinese websites, use tools like dictionaries and/or movies, call or fax or contact travel agencies or Chinese friends, and to interact and articulate with peers.
• Follow your own paths to solve the problems in whatever manner that they feel suits them most.
• Keep working journal every class and record discussion or dialogue.
• Report and elaborate it either orally to class or share with each other electronically.
• Evaluate each other with an Evaluation Rubric.
• Take field trips to local Chinese travel agencies.
• The following will be the basic scenarios around which problems are given for students to solve.

• Justify budget and time.
• Justify cities and places to visit.
• Justify hotels to stay.
• Justify what cuisine-style restaurants they will eat at.
• Justify cultural activities that they would like to participate while they are in China.
• Justify Chinese holidays that they would like to experience.
• Justify people to visit.
• Justify cultural norms that they will follow.
• Present final plans and itineray for evaluation in class.
• Finalize and compile your China Tour Pamphlet with dialogues and notes.

After taking the class, you are expected to:

• Be proficient to communicate with ease in Chinese with similar topics in real-life situations.
• Acquire and generate related knowledge of Chinese culture and Chinese people.
• Learn the complexities related to gathering information and solving problems; they will practice strategies to negotiate and interact with native Chinese speakers in order to handle the complexities.
• Be more motivated for their life time learning.