Course overview
This course will further develop students' proficiency in spoken and written Japanese at an introductory level, building on their prior language learning, and strengthen their intercultural understanding through reflection on representations of contemporary Japanese culture and society. Students will further develop their vocabulary and language structures related to a range of texts, themes and topics. Students will continue to develop grammatical concepts with a focus on language in use. They will build upon their sociocultural knowledge integral to a range of developing situations and tasks as well as intercultural aspects of contemporary Japanese culture and society relevant to the readings and projects covered.
Course learning outcomes
- communicate in Japanese with a degree of fluency appropriate to level of linguistic development
- apply grammatical and sociolinguistic concepts in an increased range of Japanese language and cultural contexts
- interpret and respond to a range of text types appropriate to the level of Japanese language proficiency
- recognise aspects of contemporary Japanese culture and society covered in the course
- develop basic intercultural competence as reflected in course resources and activities