ELEMENTARY JAPANESE

日本語 102

 

 

Jeff Fox, instructor                                                                    

Office: Shields 一一九

Office hours: 月水金: 九時から十時； 火木: 九時から九時半

Office Phone: 七三三の九五五四  ext. 二一一二

 

 

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Catalog description:

This course is a continuation of Japanese 101 with further study in speaking, listening,  pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, reading, and character writing (basic kanji, hiragana and katakana) in Japanese with emphasis is placed primarily on developing basic speaking and listening skills preparatory to intermediate Japanese studies. Central to the course is the study of Japanese culture. Prerequisite: Japanese 101 or permission of instructor. 4 credits.

 

            The course work for Japanese 102 includes the continued study of pronunciation, vocabulary, functional grammar, speaking, reading, writing, and culture. This course will emphasize hiragana, katakana, and kanji to much greater degree than Japanese 101.

            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 tutorial on certain computers in the Shields Building computer lab.

            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 50%

final examination 25%

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:

An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese by Tohsaku, McGraw-Hill.

WORKBOOK for An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese: Part B