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Japanese Communication 4B - JAPN3401
Students studying

 
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: JAPN3400 or JAPN4000; Excluded: JAPN4001
 
 
Equivalent: JAPN4001
 
 
Excluded: JAPN2600, JAPN2701, JAPN3205, JAPN3702, JAPN3703
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Prepares students in acquisition of well-rounded linguistic and communicative competence necessary for advanced learners. Further extension and systematic practice of interactive skills. Another 150 Kanji are introduced.


Learning Outcomes

  • Develop awareness in socio-cultural, sociolinguistic & linguistic competence
  • Lower-advanced level linguistic and communicative competence developed through authentic contact situations
  • Acquire basic set of contact rules, and self-monitoring and observation skills
  • 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
  • Able to apply intercultural communication skills acquired in multi-cultural learning environments to developing interactive competence in Japanese.

Assessment

  • Written tests - 30%
  • Interaction tests - 15%
  • Weekly tests - 5%
  • Dictations - 10%
  • Kanji tests - 10%
  • Sakubun tests - 20%
  • Junior-sensei project - 10%

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