Russian

Course Information

College	Anan College	Year	2023
Course Title	Russian
Course Code	1195303	Course Category	General / Elective
Class Format	Lecture	Credits	School Credit: 1
Department	Liberal Arts and Sciences	Student Grade	5th
Term	Second Semester	Classes per Week	2
Textbook and/or Teaching Materials	Kiso-karano Lesson Hajimete-no Roshiago (Russian for Beginners: Lessons from the basic), YUNOKI Kaori, Natsume-sha, Tokyo.
Instructor	Taninaka Toshihiro

Course Objectives

1. To acquire Russian alphabet and rules of spelling and pronunciation and to become able to pronounce unknown Russian words, provided with their accentuation.
2. To acquire Russian grammar, constructions and fixed phrases corresponding to English counterparts learned by the 1st graders of Japanese junior high students and to become able to interpret Russian sentences of that level and read them aloud correctly.
3. To become able to compose and utter Russian conversational fixed phrases and descriptive sentences of this textbook level, given vocabulary hints.

Rubric

	Ideal Level	Standard Level	Minimal Level
Achievement 1	Familiar with Russian pronunciation rules and able to pronouce even unknown Russian words except irregular ones.	Familiar with Russian pronunciation rules and able to pronouce Russian words in the textbook correctly.	Able to pronouce Russian alphabet and words frequently appearing in the textbook.
Achievement 2	Able to understand and read aloud new Russian sentences including learned grammar and vacubulary, given hints on new words.	Able to understand any of learned Russian sentences in the textbook and read them aloud correctly.	Able to understand most of learned Russian sentences in the textbook and read them aloud correctly.
Achievement 3	Able to compose and utter Russian sentences based on learned ones with learned words switched with new ones.	Able to accurately reproduce Russian sentences in the textbook.	Able to reproduce Runssian sentences in the textbook, provided with a small number of vocabulary hints.

Assigned Department Objectives

学習・教育到達度目標 A-1 （世界的視野から日本の文化，社会並びに他国の文化，社会を複眼的にとらえられる。）

Teaching Method

Outline:

Using an introductory textbook of Russian, students are expected to understand cores of Russian grammar, constructions, pronunciation and intonation and to do oral practices and witing review assignments.

Style:

The textbook is composed of very compact lessons. Some lessons are covered by one class, Class mainly consists of lecture on grammar and constructions and oral practice. Students are expected to make more efforts to review classes than prepare for them. They are given assignments almost every week.

Notice:

Russian intonation patterns are quite different from English ones. Therefore, oral practice is essential in class. Don't hesitate to read aloud.
Be eager to learn by heart basic vocabulary appearing in the textbook.

Characteristics of Class / Division in Learning

Aided by ICT

Applicable to Remote Class

Course Plan

			Theme	Goals
2nd Semester
	3rd Quarter
		1st	Orientation Russian alphabet How to transcribe Japanese sounds in Russian Russian "Hello"	To understand goals of this subject, significance of learning Russian and class organization. Achievement 1, 2, 3
		2nd	Rules of spelling and pronunciation Gender and number of nouns Russian "How are you?" Self introduction	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		3rd	Demonstrative pronouns "This is ～" type constructions Russian "Good-bye" and "Thank you"	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		4th	Personal pronouns "I am ～," There is ～," and "I have ～" type constructions	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		5th	Possesive pronouns Introduction to case inflection Nouns for familiar objects	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		6th	Present personal inflection of general verbs	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		7th	Past tense of verbs	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		8th	Midterm exam
	4th Quarter
		9th	Introduction to Russian culture	To participate in practice of singing in Russian
		10th	Future tense of verbs Introduction to Russian aspects	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		11th	Auxiliary-like verbs and predicate adverbs	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		12th	Imperative of verbs Order and Request	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		13th	Verbs requiring accusative objects	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		14th	Verbs requiring other oblique complements	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		15th	Expressions of personal feeling and weather	Achievement 1, 2, 3
		16th	Terminal exam

Evaluation Method and Weight (%)

	Examination	Presentation	Mutual Evaluations between students	Behavior	Portfolio	Other	Total
Subtotal	50	0	0	0	50	0	100
Basic Proficiency	50	0	0	0	50	0	100
Specialized Proficiency	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cross Area Proficiency	0	0	0	0	0	0	0