Singapore University of Social Sciences

CTI111e Contrastive Language Studies: English and Chinese aims to foster an understanding of the fundamental differences between English and Chinese languages in words, sentences, discourse and rhetorical structure. With a special emphasis on its relations to writing and translation, the course adopts a contrastive analysis approach to analyze the differences between the source texts and the translated texts. At the end of the course, students will be able to understand how Chinese the two languages organize and express meaning through their respective lexical, syntactic and stylistic devices. Such an understanding will enable them to communicate effectively in Chinese and English and relate to people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds.