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Japanese Communication 4A - JAPN3400
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Languages and Linguistics
 
 
Course Outline: School of Languages and Linguistic Course Outlines
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: JAPN3001; Excluded: JAPN4000
 
 
Equivalent: JAPN4000
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Concentrates on acquisition of late-intermediate to early-advanced interactive skills in Japanese with continued emphasis on reading and writing. Introduction to basic linguistic features of advanced level Japanese and provides opportunities to practise skills needed in typical formal and informal Australia-Japan contact situations. Approximately 150 Kanji are introduced.


Learning Outcomes

  • Develop awareness in socio-cultural, sociolinguistic and linguistic competence
  • Acquire basic set of 'contact rules', including self monitoring and observation
  • Upper-intermediate level linguistic and communicative competence developed through authentic contact situations
  • Able to share learning skills with others, and to thus increase one's own learning
  • Able to apply intercultural communication skills to interactions in Japanese.

Assessment

  • Tests - 40%
  • Report - 5%
  • Journals - 25%
  • Ondoku – 10%
  • Dictation - 10%
  • Active class participation - 10%

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