110-141 Japanese 1A

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110-141 Japanese 1A
Note	Students who have had some prior experience with the language may not enrol unless they have taken a placement test in the week preceding the first week of semester.
Availability	1st and 2nd year
Credit Points	25
HECS Band	1
Coordinator	Ms S Sekiguchi
Semester	1 (view timetable)
Contact	Eight hours of language classes, one hour self-learning in both computer and language laboratory per week
Subject Description	This is the beginners introductory level subject. Its focus is to provide basic expressions to the students to enable them to survive and function day to day in Japan. Students will learn Japanese writing systems: hiragana and katakana syllabaries, and 60 basic kanji (Chinese characters). Through learning kanji, students will also be encouraged to develop meta-cognitive awareness of kanji, which assists further kanji learning in future. Students are also introduced to aspects of Japanese culture which lie in the background of its language use. Their Japanese acquisition will be also assisted by independent learning in computer-assisted language learning and language laboratory use.
Assessment	A 2-hour final examination; and assignments, quizzes, oral and listening tests totalling 6000 words.
Prescribed Texts	Additional materials may be supplied by the Institute. Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku, Yookoso! An invitation to Contemporary Japanese. 2nd ed, 1999.

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