Course Overview

Students will become able to participate in simple daily communicative activities. Regarding speaking and listening skills, students will be able to understand simple sentences and easy complex sentences, and produce simple sentences. Regarding reading and writing skills, students will be able to read and write simple compositions about familiar themes in hiragana, katakana, and kanji studied in class.

Learning Achievement

Students will become able to participate in simple daily communicative activities, such as giving a self introduction, though assistance and scaffolding may be required. In the skill areas of speaking and listening, students will develop the ability to understand simple and easy compound sentences, and to produce simple sentences. In the areas of reading and writing, students will become able to understand and produce simple compositions on daily topics, appropriately using Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji.

Competence

Course prerequisites

This class is limited to short-term exchange students (undergrad). Students should have little or no previous Japanese study. Ability to read and write Hiragana/Katakana is desirable.

Grading Philosophy

Midterm exam 40%, Final exam 40%, In-class activities 20%

Course schedule

Week 1: Orientation, "Basic Japanese (in house ed.)" Unit 1, "NEJ vol.1" Unit 1, Hiragana
Weeks 2 to 7: "Basic Japanese" Units 2 to 4, "NEJ vol.1" Units 2 to 4, Katakana, Midterm Test
Weeks 8 to 15: "Basic Japanese" Units 5 to 8, "NEJ vol.1" Units 5 to 8, Final Test, Presentation

Course type

Class Exercises

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Ono Masaki,MOON CHANGYUN,Kaneko Nobuko,Yanagita Shinobu

Other information

Students are required to actively preview and review all materials, complete and turn in all homework assignments, participate actively in all class activities, and to be cooperative in creating a good environment for joint learning of the Japanese language.

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university