LN810     
Japanese: Level Four (Standard)

This information is for the 2024/25 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Hua Xiang

Pre-requisites

Previous knowledge of Japanese required: 250hours, including self-study and fluency in writing and reading Hiragana, Katakana and at least 250 Kanji. Students are expected to read at least 300 Kanji.

Course content

Course Aims: To attain competence in a broad range of complex and non-routine tasks across a wide variety of contexts. To practise the ability to use Japanese effectively for purposes of practical communication and reading completion dealing with linguistically challenging tasks. To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Japanese.

Communicative Content: Talking about problems and explaining solutions; Expressing supposition and impressions; Conveying information gained elsewhere; Describing actions done or to be done in preparation for the future; Expressing certainty; Expressing beliefs or expectations based on information gained elsewhere; Expressing ideas that run contrary to expectation; Expressing causes or reasons for situations or outcomes; Describing change: change coming into effect and continuous changes; Describing deliberate effects; Expressing purpose; Expressing completion/Incompletion of past, present or future actions; Giving examples of events or actions; Stating decisions; Making suggestions based on supposition;

Structural Content: Intransitive and transitive verbs, conditional statement, potential verb + -yoni narimasu, additional use of te form, inference, -tara/ba/reba (used idiomatically).

Teaching

16 hours of classes in the AT. 22 hours of classes in the WT. 2 hours of classes in the ST.

This is a 40 hour-course. Please refer to the LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.

Indicative reading

Minna no Nihongo Shokyu, Vol. 2, 2nd Edition (Book & CD)

Assessment

Continuous assessment (70%) in the AT, WT and ST.
Oral examination (30%) in the WT.

Key facts

Department: Language Centre

Total students 2023/24: Unavailable

Average class size 2023/24: 4

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