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New Course Proposal for:Japanese Language 2
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Course Proposal Details for - Japanese Language 2 (Course code not assigned)
School
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
A continuation of Japanese Language 1. Teaching will be
aimed at enabling students to speak, read and write Modern
Japanese at an upper-elementary / intermediate level.
The course provides essential grounding for the third-year
Japanese Honours Degree level.
This course is not available to native or near-native speakers of
Course Description Japanese, or complete beginners. If in doubt, contact the
Course Organiser.
All students will be given a formative feedback exercise that
will be helpful for the assessment for this course and students'
general academic development.
A placement test and questionnaire on students¿ background in
Japanese language studies will be conducted in the first class.
Normal Year Taken Year 2 Undergraduate
Course Level
UG
(PG/UG)
Visiting Student
Available to all students
Availability
SCQF Credits
40
Credit Level
SCQF Level 8
(SCQF)
Home Subject Area Asian Studies
Other Subject Area
Course Organiser
Fumiko Narumi-Munro
Course Secretary
David Horn
% not taught by this
institution
Collaboration
Information (School
/ Institution)
Total contact
132
teaching hours
Any costs to be met
textbooks
by students
Japanese 1 (ASST08002)
Pre-requisites
Japanese Language 1
Co-requisites
Prohibited
Combinations
Visting Student Prerequisites
Keywords
Fee Code (if
invoiced at course
level)
Proposer
Fumiko Narumi-Munro
Default Mode of
Classes & Assessment incl. centrally arranged exam
Study
Default delivery
Full Year
period
Marking Scheme to
Common Marking Scheme - UG Non-Honours Mark/Grade
be employed
Taught in Gaidhlig? No
Course Type
Standard
This course will further develop students¿ knowledge of the
language in a wide variety of situations using more complex
vocabulary and grammar, to Japanese Language Proficiency
Test N4 or Common European Framework of Reference for
Languages level A2/B1.
Summary of
Intended Learning
Outcomes/L01
Learning Outcome 2
1. Aimed overall proficiency level is Intermediate.
2. Speaking: students will be able to handle a variety of
straightforward communicative tasks in daily social situations.
3. Listening: students will be able to understand sentencelength utterances in both formal and informal contexts.
4. Reading: With about 400-600 kanji characters in total,
students will be able to read authentic Japanese text with
familiar topics with the aid of dictionary.
5. Writing: students will be able to write a short text in
Japanese such as personal letters/essays, and short descriptions.
Students will be able to control more complicated syntax
towards the end of the course.
Learning Outcome 3
Learning Outcome 4
Learning Outcome 5
Special
Arrangements
Course work (50%): homework, presentations, class tests,
quizzes, assignments, and participation.
Components of
Assessment
Exam Information
Syllabus
Degree exam (50%): 2 hour written paper 30% in May diet,
Practical exams (Oral exam and Reading Authentic Material
with Technology exam): 20%.
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May): 2 hours
Resit Exam Diet (August): 2 hours
Syllabus (e.g. Genki L.17: Genki textbook Lesson 17, Tobira
L.1: Tobira textbook Lesson 1):
S1:
W1: Introduction, revision (of Genki L.1-16), Genki L.17
(basic vocab and grammar revision, hearsay)
W2: Genki L.17 (guessing, describing things)
W3: Genki L.17-18 (transitivity pairs, showing regrets)
W4: Genki L.18-19 (honorific expressions)
W5: Genki L.19-20 (honorific, extra modest and humble
expressions), Class Test 1
W6: Genki L.20 (modest and humble expressions, making
polite requests)
W7: Genki L.20-21 (passive forms)
W8: Genki L.21 (passive forms, 'while' clauses)
W9: Genki L.21-22 (causatives and commands)
W10: Genki L.22 (causatives and complaining)
W11: Genki L.23 (causative passive, talking about decisions),
Class Test 2
S2:
W1: Genki L.23, Revision of Genki (giving instructions)
W2: How to use Tobira textbook, Tobira L.1 (expressions and
vocabulary for describing geography)
W3: Tobira L.1(expressions and vocabulary for describing
geography, Japanese folklore)
W4: Tobira L.1-2 (asking for meaning, Japanese speech styles)
W5: Tobira L.2 (Japanese speech styles, describing
differences, apologising), Class Test 3
ILW: no normal classes
W6: Tobira L.3 (expressions and vocabulary for describing
technology and society)
W7: Tobira L.3-4 (making requests, expressions and
vocabulary for describing Japanese mentality through Japanese
martial arts)
W8: Tobira L.4 (Japanese people's attitudes towards sports,
consulting)
W9: Tobira L.5 (expressions and vocabulary for describing
history of Japanese food invention through manga)
W10: Tobira L.5-6 (talking about customs relating food,
Japanese customs and religions), Class Test 4
W11: Tobira L.6, revision (expressions and vocabulary for
describing religion, skills for presentation with graphs and
data)
Academic
Description
Study Pattern
Transferable Skills
Study Abroad
Essential textbooks:
1. GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese II
[Second Edition]
[ With a CD-ROM for Win & Mac ]
Authors: Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda, Yutaka Ohno, Chikako
Shinagawa, Kyoko Tokashiki
Publisher: The Japan Times
ISBN: 978-4-7890-1443-4, Published: 30/11/2011.
Reading Lists
2. GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese
Workbook II [Second Edition] [ With a CD-ROM for Win &
Mac ]
Authors: Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda, Yutaka Ohno, Chikako
Shinagawa, Kyoko Tokashiki
Publisher: The Japan Times
ISBN 978-4-7890-1444-1 , Published: 30/09/2011.
Essential textbook for Kanji Workshop:
1. Kanji Look And Learn Textbook:
Authors: Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda, Chikako Shinagawa, Kaori
Tajima, Kyoko Tokashiki
ISBN: 9784789013499, Publisher: Japan Times Published:
May 2009.
2. Kanji Look And Learn Workbook
Authors: Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda, Chikako Shinagawa, Kaori
Tajima, Kyoko Tokashiki
ISBN: 9784789013505, Publisher: Japan Times Published:
June 2009.
Additional textbooks (from mid Semester 2):
TOBIRA Gateway to Advanced Japanese Learning Through
Content and Multimedia
Authors: Mayumi Oka, Michio Tsutsui, Junko Kondo, Shoko
Emori, Yoshiro Hanai, Satoru Ishikawa
Publisher: Kuroshio Publishers, ISBN: 978-4-87424-447-0
C0081, 13/07/2009.
Power Up Your Kanji- 800 Basic Kanji as a Gateway to
Advanced Japanese (TOBIRA Gateway to Advanced Japanese
series)
Authors: Mayumi Ota, Satoru Ishikawa, Junko Kondo, Michio
Tsutsui, Yoshiro Hanai
Publisher: Kuroshio Publishers, ISBN: 978-4-87424-487-6
C0081, 11/08/2010.
Tobira, Gateway To Advanced Japanese : Grammar Power
Exercises for Mastery(TOBIRA Gateway to Advanced
Japanese series)
Authors: Shoko Emori, Yoshiro Hanai, Satoru Ishikawa
Publisher: Kurosio Shuppan. ISBN: 9784874245705, 2012.
Useful textbooks for kanji for self study:
Basic Kanji Book I & II
Authors: Chieko Kano et al.
Publisher: Bonjinsha
ISBN 4-89358-091-4, 1989.
Dictionaries:
1. The Japan Foundation Basic Japanese-English Dictionary
(Tokyo/Oxford: Bonjinsha & Oxford U.P., 1986)
2. Kenkyusha¿s New Japanese-English and English-Japanese
Dictionaries
3. Haig, John W. ed., The New Nelson Japanese-English
Character Dictionary, based on the classical edition by Andrew
N Nelson (Tokyo: Tuttle 1997)
4. Hadamitzy, Wolfgang and Mark Spahn eds., Japanese
Character Dictionary with compound lookup via any kanji
(Boston: Cheng and Tsui 1991)
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