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Undergraduate Course: Japanese Language 2 (ASST08047)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits40 ECTS Credits20
SummaryA continuation of Japanese Language 1. Teaching will be aimed at enabling students to speak, read and write Modern Japanese at an upper-elementary / intermediate level.

The course provides essential grounding for the third-year Japanese Honours Degree level.

This course is not available to native or near-native speakers of Japanese, or complete beginners. If in doubt, contact the Course Organiser.

All students will be given a formative feedback exercise that will be helpful for the assessment for this course and students' general academic development.

A placement test and questionnaire on students¿ background in Japanese language studies will be conducted in the first class.
Course description Syllabus (e.g. Genki L.17: Genki textbook Lesson 17, Tobira L.1: Tobira textbook Lesson 1):

S1:
W1: Introduction, revision (of Genki L.1-16), Genki L.17 (basic vocab and grammar revision, hearsay)
W2: Genki L.17 (guessing, describing things)
W3: Genki L.17-18 (transitivity pairs, showing regrets)
W4: Genki L.18-19 (honorific expressions)
W5: Genki L.19-20 (honorific, extra modest and humble expressions), Class Test 1
W6: Genki L.20 (modest and humble expressions, making polite requests)
W7: Genki L.20-21 (passive forms)
W8: Genki L.21 (passive forms, 'while' clauses)
W9: Genki L.21-22 (causatives and commands)
W10: Genki L.22 (causatives and complaining)
W11: Genki L.23 (causative passive, talking about decisions), Class Test 2

S2:
W1: Genki L.23, Revision of Genki (giving instructions)
W2: How to use Tobira textbook, Tobira L.1 (expressions and vocabulary for describing geography)
W3: Tobira L.1(expressions and vocabulary for describing geography, Japanese folklore)
W4: Tobira L.1-2 (asking for meaning, Japanese speech styles)
W5: Tobira L.2 (Japanese speech styles, describing differences, apologising), Class Test 3
ILW: no normal classes
W6: Tobira L.3 (expressions and vocabulary for describing technology and society)
W7: Tobira L.3-4 (making requests, expressions and vocabulary for describing Japanese mentality through Japanese martial arts)
W8: Tobira L.4 (Japanese people's attitudes towards sports, consulting)
W9: Tobira L.5 (expressions and vocabulary for describing history of Japanese food invention through manga)
W10: Tobira L.5-6 (talking about customs relating food, Japanese customs and religions), Class Test 4
W11: Tobira L.6, revision (expressions and vocabulary for describing religion, skills for presentation with graphs and data)
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Japanese 1 (ASST08002) OR Japanese Language 1 (ASST08046)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Students MUST NOT also be taking Intermediate Japanese Language (ASST08048)
Other requirements None
Additional Costs textbooks
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  30
Course Start Full Year
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 400 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 132, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 44, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Revision Session Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 212 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 30 %, Coursework 50 %, Practical Exam 20 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Course work (50%): homework, presentations, class tests, quizzes, assignments, and participation.

Degree exam (50%): 2 hour written paper 30% in May diet, Practical exams (Oral exam and Reading Authentic Material with Technology exam): 20%.
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)2:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)2:00
Learning Outcomes
This course will further develop students¿ knowledge of the language in a wide variety of situations using more complex vocabulary and grammar, to Japanese Language Proficiency Test N4 or Common European Framework of Reference for Languages level A2/B1.

1. Aimed overall proficiency level is Intermediate.
2. Speaking: students will be able to handle a variety of straightforward communicative tasks in daily social situations.
3. Listening: students will be able to understand sentence-length utterances in both formal and informal contexts.
4. Reading: With about 400-600 kanji characters in total, students will be able to read authentic Japanese text with familiar topics with the aid of dictionary.
5. Writing: students will be able to write a short text in Japanese such as personal letters/essays, and short descriptions. Students will be able to control more complicated syntax towards the end of the course.
Reading List
Essential textbooks:

From the beginning of Semester 1:

1. GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese II [Second Edition]
[ With a CD-ROM for Win & Mac ]
Authors: Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda, Yutaka Ohno, Chikako Shinagawa, Kyoko Tokashiki
Publisher: The Japan Times
ISBN: 978-4-7890-1443-4, Published: 30/11/2011.

2. GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese Workbook II [Second Edition] [ With a CD-ROM for Win & Mac ]
Authors: Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda, Yutaka Ohno, Chikako Shinagawa, Kyoko Tokashiki
Publisher: The Japan Times
ISBN 978-4-7890-1444-1 , Published: 30/09/2011.


From the end of Semester 1:


3. TOBIRA Gateway to Advanced Japanese Learning Through Content and Multimedia
Authors: Mayumi Oka, Michio Tsutsui, Junko Kondo, Shoko Emori, Yoshiro Hanai, Satoru Ishikawa
Publisher: Kuroshio Publishers, ISBN: 978-4-87424-447-0 C0081, 13/07/2009.


4. Power Up Your Kanji- 800 Basic Kanji as a Gateway to Advanced Japanese (TOBIRA Gateway to Advanced Japanese series)
Authors: Mayumi Ota, Satoru Ishikawa, Junko Kondo, Michio Tsutsui, Yoshiro Hanai
Publisher: Kuroshio Publishers, ISBN: 978-4-87424-487-6 C0081, 11/08/2010.

5. Tobira, Gateway To Advanced Japanese : Grammar Power Exercises for Mastery(TOBIRA Gateway to Advanced Japanese series)
Authors: Shoko Emori, Yoshiro Hanai, Satoru Ishikawa
Publisher: Kurosio Shuppan. ISBN: 9784874245705, 2012.


Essential textbook for Kanji Workshop:

1. Kanji Look And Learn Textbook:
Authors: Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda, Chikako Shinagawa, Kaori Tajima, Kyoko Tokashiki
ISBN: 9784789013499, Publisher: Japan Times Published: May 2009.

2. Kanji Look And Learn Workbook
Authors: Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda, Chikako Shinagawa, Kaori Tajima, Kyoko Tokashiki
ISBN: 9784789013505, Publisher: Japan Times Published: June 2009.



Useful textbooks for kanji for self study:

Basic Kanji Book I & II
Authors: Chieko Kano et al.
Publisher: Bonjinsha
ISBN 4-89358-091-4, 1989.


Dictionaries:

1. The Japan Foundation Basic Japanese-English Dictionary (Tokyo/Oxford: Bonjinsha & Oxford U.P., 1986)

2. Kenkyusha¿s New Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionaries

3. Haig, John W. ed., The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary, based on the classical edition by Andrew N Nelson (Tokyo: Tuttle 1997)

4. Hadamitzy, Wolfgang and Mark Spahn eds., Japanese Character Dictionary with compound lookup via any kanji (Boston: Cheng and Tsui 1991)
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsAS Jap Lang 2
Contacts
Course organiserMs Fumiko Narumi-Munro
Tel: (0131 6)50 6971
Email: F.Narumi-Munro@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr David Horn
Tel: (0131 6)50 4227
Email: david.horn@ed.ac.uk
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