- Docente: Motoko Ueyama
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-OR/22
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
Students are expected not only to learn the basic grammar and lexicon of the target language but also to acquire the beginning level of linguistic competence for both written and spoken Japanese in a limited number of communicative contexts.
Course contents
This is the first course for beginning learners.
The course concentrates on the use of the language in actual communicative situations. By the end of the course, the students will learn two of the three Japanese writing systems (hiragana and katakana) and some characters of the third (kanji). The students will also learn the basics of Japanese grammar and be able to conduct basic conversations, read and write simple Japanese texts. They also familiarize themselves with some aspects of the Japanese Culture.
Readings/Bibliography
Textbooks
Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese
(Japan Times) - the
second edition (pp. 24-101; pp. 290-301)
Genki I Work Book
(Japan Times) -
the second edition (pp. 11-35; pp. 117-130)
Materials distributed in class
ATTENTION: the instructor will take a purchase order of textbooks in the
second week of the second semester.
Two copies of the textbook and one copy of the workbook are
available for the external use in Ruffili Library; another copy of
each of the textbook and the workbook is available for the internal
use.
Optional References
<Dictionaries>
Kodansha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary
(Kodansha
International)
< Grammar >
Matilde Mastrangelo, Naoko Ozawa & Mariko Saito
(2016).
Grammatica giapponese. (HOEPLI)
Teaching methods
Lectures, exercises, homeworks
Assessment methods
The final grades will be decided, based on the results of written & oral exams and composition assignments.
Exams of the Summer Session of Year 2019/2020:
Written
• Platforms: Esame Online (Zoom + video camera of the computer) + Moodle DIT
• Two parts: Parte I (orthography & vocabulary); Parte II (grammar & reading comprehension)
• Write answer by hand
Oral
• Platform: Esame Online (Zoom)
• MS Teams o Skype in case of the impossibility of the use of Zoom
Teaching tools
Lectures, class handouts, audiovisual materials, online resources
Office hours
See the website of Motoko Ueyama