Short Bio
Mr. Jerry Tsu (Tsu, Hsin Jen) was born in Taiwan. He is a native speaker of Mandarin. He has been teaching Mandarin at USJ since 2007. He graduated from National Taiwan Normal University in 1994. He has a Master's degree of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages in Jinan University in Guangzhou.
He had over ten-year working experience in Taiwan. He was a secondary school teacher, a tuba and sousaphone player in a national military band under two-year compulsory military service and an administrative manager in a management consulting company.
He adopts Task-based Language Learning Pedagogy in his teaching. By using multimedia materials as tools, various tasks and activities relevant to real-life situations are applied into the Mandarin programme. Students are encouraged to develop Mandarin skills through task interactions and to learn Mandarin for communication purpose.
Travels, reading, playing the clarinet and listening to music are all his favorite hobbies.
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Modules
Year 1
This is an elementary Mandarin Course for Foreigners
Students read and discuss material from sources such as newspapers, journals, contemporary literature, media broadcasts and films. Students complete assignments in areas which focus on a practical application of Mandarin including in business, trade, tourism, education or linguistics.
本課程在學生完成普通話I、普通話II課程的基礎上，通過報紙、期刊、廣播、電影等大量現實語料的學習，幫助進一步讓學生進行提高語言水平，並能在商務、貿易等日程生活實際中正確運用。
This module covers a variety of modern Chinese literary genres including essays, short stories, biographies, and criticisms. Emphasis will be on reading comprehension and expansion of vocabulary. Class discussions are on some substantive issues related to the readings.
普通話IV的講授主要包括三個內容：一是將繼續幫助學生提昇普通話水平，主要選用一些中國現代文學作品，包括散文、故事、人物傳記、評論等，作為補充材料，幫助學生理解、擴展詞彙的同時，瞭解中國社會及文化，並對一些相關問題進行討論，從而讓學生達到普通話的高級水平；二是普通話水平測試介紹及應試訓練；三是講授普通話教學法，幫助學生在教与學兩方面，於更高層次上瞭解和掌握普通話。
Last Updated: May 6, 2021 at 3:28 pm
