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Course ID Number: LGC 4101

Course Title: Elementary Japanese 1

No. of Credits: 1

Graduate School of International Relations International University of Japan

Term: Fall 2011

Instructor: Taiji Fujimura E-mail: fujimura@iuj.ac.jp

Office: 113 Phone: 514

Course Introduction

Elementary Japanese 1 is the first of a series of courses that aim at developing students' linguistic competence necessary to understand and utilize sentences and expressions frequently used in daily life. At the end of Elementary Japanese 3 students will have acquired fundamental communication skills to talk about themselves and their environment; in other words, successful students will have obtained enough abilities to reach the level that roughly corresponds to the N 4 Level in the new J LPT( Japanese Language Proficiency Test) and that of intermediate-low in the OPI( Oral Proficiency Interview) test. To achieve this goal each student is required to memorize vocabularies, expression and dialogs, while learning abou300 kanji as well as structural knowledge of the language. Of the four language skills, the development of speaking and listening skills will be more emphasized, though those of reading and writing will be also cultivated to improve the former skills.

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Elementary Japanese 1 is the f i rst of a ser ies of courses that aim at developing students 'linguistic competence necessary to understand and utilize sentences and expressions frequentlyused in daily l i fe. At the end of Elementary Japanese 3 students wil l have acquired fundamentalcommunication skil ls to talk about themselves and their environment; in other words, successfulstudents wil l have obtained enough abil it ies to reach the level that roughly coresponds to the N4level in the new JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) and that of intermediate-low in theOPI (Oral Proficiency Interview) test. To achieve this goal each student is required to memorizevocabularies, expressions and dialogs, while learning about 300 kanji as well as structural knowledgeof the language. Of the four language skil ls, the development of speaking and listening skil ls wil lbe more emphasized, though those of reading and writ ing wil l be also cultivated to improve theformer skil ls.

[Active participation in class work is mandatory. Students are required to use Japanese as muchas possible in classroom.l

Q By the end of Elementary Japanese 1 students will be able to:- introduce themselves and ask about someone's name, occupation, telephone number, etc.- do some shopping and order food at a restaurant.- invite someone to do something with them, and also accept or decline such invitation.- talk about their daily routines as well as what they did in the past.- tell the whereabouts of a particular person or thing.- seek or grant permission and talk about regulations.- ask someone to do something politely or instruct him/her to do something.- describe someone's appearance/clothes and talk about his/her (as well as their own) family.- report what they have heard and express their opinions.

.T Structures and expressions covered in Elementary Japanese 1 include:- basic nominal expressions, in which a noun is used as a part of a predicate.- basic verbal expressions, in which a verb is used as a predicate.- basic adjectival expressions, in which an adjective is used as a predicate.- verbal expressions ending in * t * i and *tlvltt.- expressions involving a verbal (-form, such as (< /;.t t\.- expressions involving a verbal (-form, such as (6 L\t\Tf and (t*f t l t*.t lv.- verbal expressions ending in *jb[\*f , LtLt*fand their variants.

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Credits:

1 credit

Instructors:Office Phone e-mail Office Hours

, i . D6 6 1 13 514 fujimura@ 10:30 - 1 1 :30 (W & Th)tz lJ)B 249 515 aki@ 14:00 - 16:00 (W)

Textbooks:(i) trt//v*J I (revised edition) and (ii) various handouts

Grading:Basic component:

Mid-term exam . . . . . . . . . 20 o/o

F ina l exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 %Daily quizzes (including those of kanji, vocabulary, garammar, coversation

and dictation) ....... 25 %Class performance and efforts in general (including homework

submission, active participation in classes, progress, etc.) 10 %Aural/oral comoonent:

2 lnterview tests, and a presentat ion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 %

lmportant Note 1:Indiv idual pract ice is a must, when you learn a language. Make the most of the CD that

comes with the textbook. The CD is also needed to answer aural comprehension questions inyour weekly assignments. In addition you can make use of on-line studying materials availablefor the users of the textbook at http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/.

lmportant Note 2:Every student enroll ing in a Japanese course offered by the JLP is subject to the following

rules:i. Both mid-term and final exams may be made up with approvable reasons; however, a

maximum of only 80% of the full mark will be awarded. No make-ups are allowed fordaily quizzes.

ii. lf you miss more than a third of the total classes, you will be disqualified from taking partin the final-rellated activities such as writing a final exam, taking a final interview test andmaking a final presentation/speech. In other words, only those who have attended morethan two-thirds of the total classes are qualified to do these things.

Additional Note:

A lot of Japanese language leraning tools are available on the Internet. Some of them canbe found in the following sites.

i. http ://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/language. html

ii. http ://www.polarcloud.com