Phone 415-928-9608
http://sokogakuen.org
COURSE SYLLABUS
Term (Contact hours) Summer 2018 (33 hours)
Class & Section Practical Communication ME
Instrucator Mari Ota: ohchanma@gmail.com
URL: http://otamari.web.fc2.com
Meeting Day & Time Mondays, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20, 8/27, 9/3, 9/10 (Final), 9/17
COURSE
OBJECTIVES
After several quarters of this course, you should be able to:
1. expand vocabulary, comprehension, and other communication skills;
2. develop linguistic and communicative competence;
3. understand “speaking rules” and the relation between linguistic “form and function”;
4. recognize degree of formality, uses of silence, appropriateness of questions, type of questions, gender and age-related restrictions of interlocutors.
INSRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
1. Recommended text
砂川有里子 (2009) 『日本語文型辞典』 くろしお出版
2. Handouts for Idioms, Grammar,
Reading, Listening exercises prepared by the instructor.
3. Online
a) Japanese newspapers
http://sokogakuen.org/newspapers.html
b) Practice Japanese online
http://coelang.tufs.ac.jp/english/modules/en/dmod/index.html
http://www.manythings.org/japanese/signs
http://www.ajalt.org/sj
http://www.webjapanese.com/photo
http://www.schei.com/cgi-bin/flash.cgi
c) Online translation
http://jisho.org
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
http://www.rikai.com/cgi-bin/HomePage.pl?Language=En
d) Online resources
http://www.manythings.org/japanese/links
http://www.mahoroba.ne.jp/~gonbe007/hog/shouka/00_songs.html
EVALUATION
1. One final exam (2.5 hours).
2. Upon successful completion (80% or higher attendance rate and 80% or
higher final exam score) of the course, a STUDENT PROGRESS REPORT will be
written if requested at the time you take the final exam.
3. Your final exam score (%) and attendance (%) will be kept in a digitized
form @STUDENT GRADES AND
INFORMATION REPOSITORY.
TEACHING
STYLE & PROCEDURES
1. In this course,
an eclectic teaching method is used.
2. In class, student and teacher (and student and student) will engage in
interactive language activities, dialogs and a variety of exercises, using
Japanese as much as possible.
3. Students will reinforce and develop vocabulary, structure, listening and
conversational skills through weekly assignments.
*Weekly assignments on specific dates may be available from your instructor in
class.
PLEASE NOTE
1. You are expected to complete all assignments before coming to class.
2. Please be on time for class; otherwise, you interrupt the lesson for others.
Regular class attendance and participation are essential for language learning.
3. The results of your final exam (%) and attendance (%) will be kept in a
digitized form @STUDENT GRADES
AND INFORMATION REPOSITORY. Your PROGRESS REPORT will be kept in
the Soko Gakuen Records
Office, and the Office will release it only upon your request.
4. When you obtain a score of 80% or higher on the final exam, you move up to a
higher level class or remain in this class. Soko Gakuen's exit criteria for each class/level are based on
the 1987 ACTFL Japanese Language
Proficiency Guidelines.
POLICY ON THE FINAL EXAM
If you are unable to take the final exam on the
scheduled date due to circumstances beyond your control, the exam will be given
only in a similar test-taking situation (under supervision of an instructor at Soko Gakuen). Unless the final
exam is made up before the PROGRESS REPORT is submitted (from the instructor to
the Soko Gakuen Office), NO
CERTIFICATES shall be issued.