James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

JA3402:06

Advanced Japanese 4

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 1

26 hours lectures, 26 hours tutorials (video-conferenced to Cairns), 3 face-to-face workshops in Cairns. Semester 2.

Staff: Mr G Kutash.

This subject continues building advanced level communicative skills across the four macro-skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, through the study of authentic Japanese material, such as films, TV dramas, fictional and non-fictional prose.

Learning Objectives:

  1. increase students’ proficiency beyond the level achieved in the prerequisite advanced level subject;
  2. increase the complexity and flexibility that students display in their language use, both in speech and in writing.

Assessment by assignments, in-class tests, oral/aural and written examinations: listening (25%); speaking (25%); reading (25%); writing (25%).