JAPANESE LANGUAGE 2 ADVANCED LEVEL
Stampa
Enrollment year
2019/2020
Academic year
2020/2021
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
L-OR/22 (LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE OF JAPAN AND KOREA)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course
WORLD POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
1st semester (28/09/2020 - 11/12/2020)
ECTS
9
Lesson hours
60 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Teacher
PANCINI ANDREA (titolare) - 9 ECTS
Prerequisites
Students who passed the achievement test of Japanese Language I (advanced course) can take the Japanese Language II advanced course.
Learning outcomes
Students will reach the upper intermediate B1+/B2.1 communicative language competences, according to the JF standard for the Japanese Language Education.
Students can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.; can deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in an area where the language is spoken; can produce clear connected text on topics, which are familiar, or of personal interest; can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
Course contents
Students will learn how to talk about a friend's recent news with another friend; find out about what things other people are worried about and report the results with your comments; ask something to someone you do not know when travelling; show politeness to a visitor
Students will also read simple article from Japanese newspapers and produce simple presentations on familiar topic.
Teaching methods
communicative approach
Reccomended or required readings
Akira Miura, An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese, The Japan Times, seconda edizione, 2008.

Akira Miura, An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese Workbook, The Japan Times, seconda edizione, 2008.

Seiichi Makino, A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar, Japan Times, 1991.
Assessment methods
Achievement test will be both written and oral. Students who fail to pass written exam will not be admitted to the oral examination.
Further information
Students are required to attend classes regularly and take part in group activities with the Japanese Language Instructor.
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