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Contact Situations in Japanese - JAPN3704
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Languages and Linguistics
 
 
Course Outline: http://legacy.handbook.unsw.edu.au
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: JAPN3401 or JAPN4001 or equivalent plus 24 units of credit in JAPN language courses
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Investigates what really occurs in genuine Contact Situations with Japanese. Develops skills to improve performance in these situations. Introduces changing concepts of interculture, transculture, native speaker, foreign/second language speaker, and linguistic, communicative, and sociocultural competence.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students should:
  • Become aware of the three types of norms that are applied in any human interaction: a) Socio-cultural norms, b) Sociolinguistic norms, c) (Pure) linguistic norms
  • Become aware of the differences in these three types of norms between contact situations and native situations
  • Appreciate empirical cases of the norms applied in contact situations between native speakers of Japanese (NSJ) and non-native speakers of Japanese (NNSJ)
  • Become acquainted with the Theory of Language Management that gave rise to the concept of contact situations
  • Be able to observe and monitor interaction between themselves and NSJS in contact situations
  • Be able to use basic sets of management strategies to manage the situations when and if they are concerned that the situation may not be progressing smoothly
  • Start discovering more of these strategies during the course through participation, self-monitoring, project work, video/ CD-watching, peer-learning, observation and interviewing NSJ and veteran NNSJ participants of contact situations.

Assessment

  • Weekly web journals (x5) - 25% (5% each)
  • Construction of management strategies exercises - 20%
  • Individual project (including two interim presentations worth 10%) - 30%
  • Class papers on visitor sessions (x2) - 10%
  • Active preparation for and participation in class discussion - 15%

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