Dougherty Valley High – Chinese Mandarin III for Heritage Learners

Apr 2026 · 2nd Semester

Highly Recommend: C or better in Chinese Mandarin II for heritage learners. This course is designed for students who have higher proficiency in listening and speaking of Chinese Mandarin, and are interested in learning Chinese Mandarin. This course will focus on using Chinese III Vocabulary in grammar, levelappropriate authentic material and some advanced vocabularies to further develop skills especially in reading and writing. This course presupposes and good listening and speaking ability of Chinese Mandarin and sufficient knowledge of vocabularies, sentence patterns, and grammatical structures. Emphasis will be placed upon using authentic material to conduct vocabulary comparison, oral discussion, and written presentation in Chinese Mandarin, so that students will use their language advantage to experience how the language is used in an authentic Chinese-speaking environment. For students who have not taken Chinese Mandarin I or Chinese Mandarin II (either regular or Heritage Learner class) in high school or Chinese 1B in middle school, or have not taken equivalent class in any accredited school, please register to DVHS placement test and complete student survey to determine class placement.