JAPN 2213 - Japanese 2SB: Practical Japanese

This course is a complementary course for Japanese IISB Intermediate II, and in order to facilitate students' progress from the intermediate to the advanced level, this course further extends students' language skills, by continuing to use authentic on-line Japanese language source materials for their language learning. By building upon the knowledge and language skills developed in JAPN 2211, students will further develop necessary skills to conduct small-scale research projects. In this course, increased emphasis is placed upon enhancing the following language skills: i) to demonstrate their understanding of research topics/issues in Japanese; ii) to identify and form a research question in Japanese; iii) to retrieve both on-line and printed reference sources in Japanese; iv) to assess and analyse Japanese language reference sources critically by scanning and skimming retrieved texts; v) to arrive at answers to research questions in Japanese.

(vi) to present their research findings in oral presentations

In order to develop students' ability to form and express their own opinions using appropriate register, a selection of Japanese texts on issues and topics related to Japan and certain aspects of language use will be used as discussion materials. Some of these discussions will take place with Japanese native speakers who will be invited to talk about a certain issue/topic in class.