About this Course
Course Description
Introductory Medical Mandarin Communication Course is designed specifically for students or staffs of the Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences Bachelor’s Degree in University Technology MARA who have no background in Mandarin or any character-based language. This course can also be used by medical field students from other tertiary institutions and medical staff. The students will be taught appropriate introductory level vocabulary and grammar. The course will emphasize greatly on developing student’s communication skills in medical workplace situational contexts through various activities such as language games, role plays, simulations and other relevant language tasks. Besides, social skills will be emphasized to develop students’ self-confidence. Students will also be trained to be proactive and learn good moral values through language activities in virtual classes. This course consists of 7 topics. Each topic consists of situational dialogues and activities involving listening, speaking, reading and writing skills based on the learning objectives. Students are expected to take part in all language activities to ensure success in attaining elementary proficiency in Mandarin within 60 hours. The teaching materials and exercises are presented through a multimodal approach. The course incorporates words, images, audio recordings, videos, animation graphics, songs and music to garner the diversified students’ learning style and interest while making learning fun to achieve favorable learning outcomes. At the end of the course, the student should be able to speak and interact in basic Mandarin with confidence in hospital everyday situations.
Course Learning Outcomes
1 ) Demonstrate the basic ability to write, read, listen and speak medical Mandarin in various discourses.
2 ) Demonstrate basic social skills while interacting using Introductory Medical Mandarin.
3 ) Demonstrate the language norms while interacting using Introductory Medical Mandarin.
Course Details
STATUS : Open DURATION : FLEXIBLE EFFORT : 7.5 hours per week MODE : 100% Online COURSE LEVEL : Beginner LANGUAGE : English CLUSTER : Social Science & Humanities ( SS )
