James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

JA4501:06

Advanced Japanese 5

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 1

26 hours lectures, 26 hours tutorials (video-conferenced to Cairns), 3 face-to-face workshops in Cairns. Semester 1.

Staff: Mr G Kutash.

This subject continues building advanced level communicative skills across the four macro-skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Increased emphasis is placed on accuracy and on the range of complexity and flexibility that students display in their language use.

Learning Objectives:

  1. increase students’ proficiency beyond the level achieved in the prerequisite advanced level subject;
  2. enhance further students’ ability to convey precise and complex meanings in a variety of situations and contexts, 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%).