Undergraduate - UnitATS1043 - Japanese intermediate 2 Monash Extension Program

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2013 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Japanese Studies
Offered	Caulfield Second semester 2013 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Kuniko Yoshimitsu

Synopsis

Note: This unit is exclusively for high school students who participate in the Monash Extension Program.

This is the second part of a sequence progressing from the beginner to the intermediate levels of Japanese. This unit aims to enhance students' knowledge about Japan and consolidate and further develop their interactive skills in spoken and written Japanese. The unit also aims to enhance students' intercultural awareness through learning Japanese.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should:

have gained good fundamental linguistic knowledge of Japanese (e.g. basic grammar, vocabulary, kanji) and developed skills to use them at pre-intermediate level;
have gained social/cultural knowledge of Japan which are necessary to interact with Japanese people effectively in daily contexts;
have developed listening and speaking skills for basic communication purposes;
have developed strategies to obtain necessary information from a variety of written and spoken Japanese texts, genres and media including the internet, with some guidance;
be able to recognize and use the kanji introduced at previous levels and approximately 150 newly introduced characters (450 in total);
be able to write a simple essay about a social issue (e.g. ageing society, environment, education) using a wider range of vocabulary, sentence patterns and kanji;
have developed intercultural awareness through learning Japanese;
have developed skills and strategies that will enable them to continue their Japanese acquisition outside the classroom.