Faculty
IKL

Course Coordinator
tba

Students must have an intermediate level of Japanese. Level of exchange students to be assessed by the course coordinator.

During this year special focus is on the spoken language in order to improve the students' speaking and listening abilities, sentence construction and self-expression, and to enable students to listen to and talk about more specific topics, including economy and management-related topics. Furthermore, students’ skills in reading and comprehension of Japanese texts will be developed further.

Each teaching session incorporates some or all of the following tasks and is conducted in Japanese throughout: reading aloud, answering questions, practising new expressions, listening to tapes/videos, writing in Japanese, and free conversation (e.g. role playing) by actively using basic grammar, idioms and vocabularies. During class, students will present the content of texts studied in various form, such as oral and written. There is a use-oriented approach to grammar in order to develop the students’ skills in using grammar as a tool to “decipher” and readily understand language at a more complicated level.

Lectures, group work etc.

Biweekly assessment tests and two oral exams.

Compendium compiled of texts in Japanese about topics generally taught at the Asian Studies Programme.