- 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
third edition (pp. 20-101; pp. 296-307)
Genki I Work Book
(Japan Times) -
the third edition (pp. 11-40; pp. 121-134)
Materials distributed in class
ATTENTION: the instructor will take a purchase order of textbooks in the
second week of the second semester.
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.
The modality of final exams will be determined and announced in the second semester by considering the development of the situation relating to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Teaching tools
Lectures, class handouts, audiovisual materials, Moodle, online resources
Office hours
See the website of Motoko Ueyama