Chinese Language A: Language and Literature (HL/SL)

Entry Guidance

Chinese Language A: Language and Literature is recommended for the first language student or for those students who have a high level of fluency in Chinese. Any student interested in selecting Chinese Language A: Language and Literature at HL or SL must have had previous formal literary experience and training and be confident and capable of writing critical essays about texts.

Completion of Chinese Language A: Language and Literature (HL/SL) as a Group 2 course - Students will be awarded a bilingual IB Diploma if they achieve level 3 or higher for this course and their Group 1 course.

Course Aims

The aims of all subjects in studies in language and literature are to enable students to:

• Engage with a range of texts, in a variety of media and forms, from different periods, styles, and cultures.

• Develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, presenting and performing.

• Develop skills in interpretation, analysis and evaluation.

• Develop sensitivity to the formal and aesthetic qualities of texts and an appreciation of how they contribute to diverse responses and open up multiple meanings.

• Develop an understanding of relationships between texts and a variety of perspectives, cultural contexts, and local and global issues and an appreciation of how they contribute to diverse responses and open up multiple meanings.

• Develop an understanding of the relationships between studies in language and literature and other disciplines.

• Communicate and collaborate in a confident and creative way.

• Foster a lifelong interest in and enjoyment of language and literature.

Course Content

1. Readers, writers and texts

2. Time and space

3. Intertextuality: connecting texts

Assessment Outline

HL Assessment Component Weighting

External Assessment (4 hours) 80%

• Paper 1: Guided textual analysis (2 hours 15 minutes)

• Paper 2: Comparative literary essay (1 hour 45 minutes)

• Higher level essay (written in class)

Internal Assessment 20%

• Individual oral

SL Assessment Component Weighting

External Assessment (3 hours) 70%

• Paper 1: Guided textural analysis (1 hour 15 minutes)

• Paper 2: Comparative essay (1 hour 45 minutes)

Internal Assessment 30%

• Individual oral

For Further Advice

Contact Ying Wen, Head of Mandarin: Ying.Wen@dulwich-seoul.kr