Introduction to Study of Japanese Language I

Course Detail

Degree: Bachelor
Standard Academic Year: 1, 2
Course delivery methods: face-to-face
Subject: Social studies, Education
Program
School: School of Humanities and Culture
Department: College of Japanese Language and Culture
Campus: Tsukuba Campus
Classroom: 2B309
Course Offering Year: 2023-2024
Course Offering Month: April - June
Weekday and Period: Fri4
Capacity
Credits: 1.0
Language: English
Course Number: AE53B11

Introduction to Study of Japanese Language I University of Tsukuba

Course Overview

This course covers the speech sounds, vocabulary, grammar, and discourse of modern Japanese.

Learning Achievement

Enable students to acquire basic knowledge about speech sounds, vocabulary, semantics, and grammar, etc. of Modern Japanese.

Competence

Related to major competence: skills to analyze linguistic phenomena

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Evaluation will be based on the final exam at the end of the semester (80%) and the submitted work at each session (20%).

Course schedule

Lectures are given according to the composition of the textbook.
Component units of language, characteristics and functions of human language
Phonetics and phonology, vowels and consonants, mora
Syllables, accents, and pronunciation variants
Vocabulary, vocabulary categories, word meanings
Word composition and word formation, word change, language and society
Grammar, sentence structure and parts of speech, verbs, and adjectives
Conjugation, Subject/Topic, Structure of predicates (1)
Structure of predicates (2), Modification and Conjunction
Kanji, notation of idioms, kana and romaji notation
The Position of Japanese in the World's Languages

Course Detail