Japanese Ⅰ

Course Information

College	Akashi College	Year	2021
Course Title	Japanese Ⅰ
Course Code	0023	Course Category	General / Compulsory
Class Format	Lecture	Credits	School Credit: 5
Department	Mechanical Engineering	Student Grade	1st
Term	Year-round	Classes per Week	前期:6 後期:4
Textbook and/or Teaching Materials	Minna no Nihongo Elementary II 2nd Edition by 3A Corporation, 3A Corporation / Intermediate Japanese J301Revised Edition by Hiroko Ishizawa, 3A Corporation / Learning 300 Kanji through Stories by Fusako Beuckmann, Kuroshio Publishers / Learning Kanji through Stories Ⅱ 301-500 by Fusako Beuckmann, Kuroshio Publishers
Instructor	KUBOTA Ikumi

Course Objectives

1. Understand Japanese writing, speaking, vocabulary, sentence patterns, and expressions, and can use them appropriately.
2. Can use Japanese to communicate information about topics of interest, feelings about said topics and reasons for those feelings, while also understanding the information, feelings, and reasons of others. Can also write sentences or connected text about these topics.
3. Have a clear understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of their own Japanese ability and skills and can explain them in their native language. Can also then think of the proper solutions to challenges on their own and put them into action.

Rubric

	Ideal Level	Standard Level	Unacceptable Level
Achievement 1	Understand writing, speaking, vocabulary, sentence patterns, and expressions in different situations and contexts, and can use them appropriately.	Understand writing, speaking, vocabulary, sentence patterns, and expressions in different situations and contexts, and can use them appropriately to a certain extent.	Do not understand writing, speaking, vocabulary, sentence patterns, and expressions in different situations and contexts, and can barely use them.
Achievement 2	Can use the words learned appropriately to express information about things and their feelings, etc. without hints or assistance.	Can use the words learned appropriately, and express information about things and their feelings, etc. with hints or assistance.	Cannot use the words learned, and cannot express much information about things or their feelings.
Achievement 3	Can figure out their challenges, think of solutions, and put them into action.	Can figure out their challenges and think of solutions.	Even if they can figure out their challenges, they cannot think of a solution.

Assigned Department Objectives

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Teaching Method

Outline:

Students will study beginner to intermediate Japanese throughout the year. In order to achieve the language activity targets set for every lesson, this course aims to enhance Japanese language ability and skills, and connect them to real use.

Style:

Students will review key points and practice them in a variety of ways during the class. Using the Japanese learned, they will engage in long speaking and writing, and other productive activities on their own and practice conversations with others.

Notice:

For every lesson, students will be expected to reflect on what they could and could not do, and to be proactive in improving their Japanese ability and skills.
Students who miss 1/4 or more of classes will not be eligible for a passing grade.

Characteristics of Class / Division in Learning

Active Learning	Aided by ICT	Applicable to Remote Class	Instructor Professionally Experienced

Course Plan

			Theme	Goals
1st Semester
	1st Quarter
		1st	Orientation	Understand the class objectives and content, and your Japanese language levels.
		2nd	"Minna no Nihongo Elementary II" Ch. 35-36	Can talk about hypothetical situations. Can also make decisions under certain conditions and ask for advice or directions. Can state their goals.
		3rd	"Minna no Nihongo Elementary II" Ch. 37-38	Can talk about other people's behaviors that bother them. Can express my feelings about certain behaviors. Can also emphasize what they want to convey to the other person.
		4th	"Minna no Nihongo Elementary II" Ch. 39-40	Can explain the causality of a situation and the resulting feelings. Can properly explain the reason and the situation. Can talk about their thoughts, decisions, and actions based on their own questions.
		5th	"Minna no Nihongo Elementary II" Ch. 42-43	Can say what needs be done to achieve the purpose of their actions or goals. Can express speculations of what things are from their appearance.
		6th	"Minna no Nihongo Elementary II" Ch. 44-45	Can talk about what happens when an action or degree has gone too far. Can communicate their choices and decisions. Can anticipate situations and describe how to respond to them. Can express a sense of surprise or dissatisfaction with unexpected results.
		7th	"Minna no Nihongo Elementary II" Ch. 46-47	Can express situations and their feelings about them through describing the stages of their actions. Can state what they are certain of. Can state information that they have obtained from others and make decisions from that information.
		8th	Midterm exam
	2nd Quarter
		9th	"Minna no Nihongo Elementary II" Ch. 41, 48	The appropriate use of the exchange and representation based on the hierarchy and level of intimacy in a personal relationship. Can give permission or approval to people who are not their superiors.
		10th	"Minna no Nihongo Elementary II" Ch. 49-50	Can use honorifics properly to talk to superiors and people you meet for the first time, and to send emails.
		11th	Reflection	In addition to organizing the knowledge of the Japanese you have already learned, look back on what you can do in Japanese and reconfirm your goals from the next week.
		12th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 1	Can read and understand sentences about past events.
		13th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 1	Can understand the characteristics of Japanese grammar such as polysemous words and compound verbs, and can use idioms using body parts.
		14th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 3	Can read and understand sentences while understanding the contrast of things.
		15th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 3	Knowing the diversity of vocabulary, you can paraphrase Wago and Katakana into Kango.
		16th	Final exam
2nd Semester
	3rd Quarter
		1st	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 4	Understand that there are various cultures and customs.
		2nd	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 4	Can understand and use onomatopoeia such as expressions expressing emotions.
		3rd	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 5	Can read information from graphs and data, and understand the contents of survey reports written in Japanese.
		4th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 5	Understand the grammar and expressions which often used in survey reports and easily summarize the contents read from the graph.
		5th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 6	Understand the patterns of Japanese opinion sentences.
		6th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 6	Understand some of the coined words of kanji and use various words using kanji.
		7th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 6	Can know and use the aizuchi, filler, and expressions when listening to others.
		8th	Midterm exam
	4th Quarter
		9th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 9	Can read the report of the experiment (purpose, method, procedure and conclusion).
		10th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 9	Understand the grammar and expressions which often used in experiment reports and use them when writing sentences.
		11th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 9	Pay attention to the writing style and written language, and can easily summarize an experiment according to the purpose, method, procedure, and flow of conclusions.
		12th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 7	Can read the text separately from the facts and opinions.
		13th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 7	Understand how to use grammar that works like a postpositional particles, and use it when writing sentences.
		14th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 10	Can use various words using kanji such as prefixes and suffixes.
		15th	"Intermediate Japanese J301" Ch. 10	Can read the characteristics of each while comparing the two things.
		16th	Final exam

Evaluation Method and Weight (%)

	Examination	Assignments	Portfolio	Total
Subtotal	50	40	10	100
Basic Proficiency	50	20	0	70
Specialized Proficiency	0	0	0	0
Cross Area Proficiency	0	20	10	30