Short-term Mandarin Chinese Course Planning for Caregiver Services

Short-term Mandarin Chinese Course Planning for Caregiver Services

Course Duration: 30 hours (15 hours per week) Intended Audience: Foreign caregivers, New immigrant caregivers Faculty:

  • Mandarin Course: Professor Zhao Fengmei from Taichung University of Education
  • Specialized Course: Professor Lai Qiurong

Language Proficiency: 60-240 hours of learning from non-Chinese-speaking regions. Possesses basic grammar and approximately 300 high-frequency vocabulary.

Mandarin Course: Basic Foundation Class Students enhance their speaking and lexicon ability and master the stroke orders in Chinese characters by learning intermediate grammar, syntax, and oral communication. Through the established foundation in Chinese, they learn new grammar, grasp the rules of writing Chinese characters, and strengthen daily conversation training and vocabulary ability.

Learning Objectives: Mandarin (Level One) Introduction to Chinese (A1)

  • Vocabulary: 800 words
  • Sentence Pattern: 50

Specialized Course: Caregiver Services (10-hour course) Professional Mandarin Course:

  1. Functions and Objectives of Household Chores
  2. Basic Principles of Household Chores
  3. Content and Guidelines for Household Chores
  4. Needs of Perception
  5. Activity Needs
  6. Rest and Sleep Needs
  7. Needs for Body Hygiene and Comfort
  8. Basic Nutritional Needs and Assisting with Feeding
  9. Urinary Excretion Needs
  10. Intestinal Excretion Needs
  11. Breathing Needs

Fee: 10,000 per person; classes start with 2 or more persons.