Module JPNS2012: JAPANESE LANGUAGE 2

Department: Modern Languages and Cultures (Japanese)

JPNS2012: JAPANESE LANGUAGE 2

Prerequisites

• Japanese Language 1 (JPNS1012) or equivalent or an equivalent qualification, subject to decision by the module’s language coordinator

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• • Japanese Stage 1 (MLAN1151), Japanese Stage 2 (MLAN1161) or Japanese Stage 3 (MLAN1171).

Aims

• To further develop linguistic skills acquired at Level 1 across the full range of reading, writing, listening and speaking.
• To prepare students for living abroad in terms of language, practical knowledge, and cultural competence.

Content

• Weekly sessions devoted to the following:
• Grammar
• Translation from Japanese into English and comprehension (reading)
• Translation from English into Japanese and composition (writing)
• Kanji writing
• Audio-Visual Comprehension (listening)
• Oral (speaking)

Learning Outcomes

• Students will extend their basic vocabulary to a level commensurate with Level 2 study and complete the process of familiarisation with more complex grammatical structures, extend their knowledge of kanji, and become exposed to a greater diversity of registers, including honorific and plain forms, and text-types.

• Students will develop skills in translation (from Japanese into English and English into Japanese), in producing more sophisticated spoken and written Japanese, and in processing aural and visual material in the target language.

• Students will begin to develop the ability to work independently within a prescribed framework and across a range of differentiated tasks.
• On completion of the course, students will be able to present a clear argument in the target language in both oral and written form.
• Students will gain the ability to present information and /or construct an argument effectively in the target language.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• The course involves highly differentiated modes of teaching, appropriate to the specific skills being developed.
• A grammar lecture will set the context for a series of skills-based sessions, including small-group oral sessions, each focused on one or more of the four particular skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

In addition to weekly exercises as specified by the teachers there will be formal formative assessments as below. Apart from the 10 minute weekly vocabulary / writing tests, these will be given a formal mark which will be recorded; marked scripts will be returned to students as below: Vocabulary/ kanji & kana test Weekly 10 mins Peer marked for instant return; Grammar & Composition test TW10 1 hour TW11; Listening Comprehension test TW14 1 hour TW15; Oral TW16 10 mins TW17; Comprehension/Translation test TW19 1 hour TW20 ________________________________________

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University