ELEMENTARY JAPANESE

Japanese 101

Jeff Fox, instructor

Office: Meyerhoeffer Building, room 224

Office Phone: 733-9554 x2528

Office Hours: M-F 10:00-11:00

email:  jfox@csi.edu

4 credit hours

勉強

     Catalog description: This course provides pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, reading, and character writing (hiragana, katakana) exercises in spoken Japanese. Emphasis is placed primarily on developing speaking and listening skills. The study of  the Japanese culture and its history is necessarily a part  of language acquisition.

                The course work for Japanese 101 includes the study of pronunciation, vocabulary, functional grammar, speaking,  reading, writing, and culture. This class is a cornerstone in Japanese Studies, at once a base for students who wish to pursue linguistic and cultural inquiries, and a study for those merely seeking information about a fascinating culture.

                The class meets four times a week, and attendance is de rigueur; if you miss more than four classes, you cannot hope to attain better than a "D" for the course. All assignments must be completed in a timely fashion; I do not accept late work. In addition to class work, I strongly recommend that you attend weekly small group tutoring sessions which I will try to arrange with your fellow students, second-year Japanese language students, and my work-study students. The times of the sessions will be decided based on various schedules. I also strongly advise students to make use of the writing system software on certain computers in the Shields 214 computer lab as well as the multitude of excellent web sites on Japan.

Your grade will be determined mainly by your weekly quiz and test results, but your in-class work and participation, and attendance will also count.

quizzes & tests 75%

in-class work 25%

OUTCOME ASSESSMENT

At the end of the one-year elementary sequence (after Japanese 102), students will be assessed using ACTFL guidelines (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages) as to their proficiency in Japanese at the elementary level.

REQUIRED TEXTS:

ようこそ! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese  2nd edition, by Tohsaku, McGraw-Hill.

WORKBOOK for ようこそ!An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese 2nd edition

 

Language Department Goals:

Faculty will

--provide a comprehensive, sequenced course of language instruction for the second language learner;

--teach both expressive and receptive communication skills that enable the student to meaningfully participate in the activities of daily living within the second language context;

--provide a university parallel transfer program within the state of idaho.

Students will

--initiate and sustain conversations in which they ask and answer questions, give and receive directions, introduce themselves, and report observations and information at a level appropriate to their language exposure and experience;

--demonstrate creativity in choosing alternate methods (for example, vocabulary, phrases, pantomime, or drawing) in social situations where their communication skills have not been effective;

--integrate various culturally appropriate behaviors into their conversations.