• Offered by School of Culture History and Language
  • ANU College ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
  • Course subject Vietnamese
  • Areas of interest Asian Languages
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Bao Thai
  • Mode of delivery Online or In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in First Semester 2016
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An intermediate level of Vietnamese with an emphasis on active oral and writing skills. This course consolidates and builds on the foundation set in the first year. It focuses on active production of language in selected contexts to promote active recall of vocabulary items and their usage in the appropriate context using the correct grammatical form in accordance with accepted conversational conventions. A reading program forms a part of the course.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Building towards confident spoken and literacy skills in modern Vietnamese

Indicative Assessment

Attendance and class participation (10%), Weekly assignments (totaling 20%), Mid-term exam (30%), Final exam (30%), Minor project (10%).

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Workload

Four hours per week. Students should contact the course convenor Dr Bao Thai for details of class times.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have completed VIET1003 or 1007.

Prescribed Texts

Hue, Nguyen Van (ed), Vietnamese as a Second Language III (VSL 3), College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University- HCMC, 2003
Nguyen Bich Thuan, Contemporary Vietnamese: An Intermediate Text, Northern Illinois University, 1996

Preliminary Reading

Ton-That Quynh-Du, Learning Vietnamese for Speakers of English, Book 3 Dept Asian Languages and Studies, Monash University, 1994

Majors

Minors

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

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Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2016 $2718
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2016 $3876
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

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First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
On-campus
2321 15 Feb 2016 26 Feb 2016 31 Mar 2016 27 May 2016 In Person N/A
Online
3820 15 Feb 2016 26 Feb 2016 31 Mar 2016 27 May 2016 Online N/A

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