Your grades in the course are determined by daily performance. You are competing not with your classmates but against the communicative demands of the language. We recognize that you forget as you learn, which is only natural. Each person will perform to receive credit. Your total course grade breaks down as follows:
- Class attendance, about 56 class meetings, 20%
- In class tests are posted in weekly syllabi, about 20 times, 20%. The formats include: multiple choices, true or false, filling the blanks, unscramble and match fragments.
- Moodle 测验/考试 quizzes 35; 35%.
- Homework 作业 about 25 times, constituting 25%; double space either in hard copies or typed from your computer, collected at the beginning of each class.
- Tutoring meetings with Hong laoshi are available throughout the semester, 3 times per week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. If and when you miss a class and want to make it up, come by all means to the tutoring hours, but no less than 10 times to receive additional 10%.