Japanese Language (Professional Level)

2021/2022

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

4-й курс, 3 модуль

Преподаватели

Йошида Хигаши

Кудряшова Анастасия Вячеславовна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Japanese Language (Professional Level) Course is designed for non-native learners of Japanese who have taken approximately three years of regularly paced college-level Japanese. During the duration of the course students learn the vocabulary needed to discuss the modern societies of Russia and Japan and the issues that people in those societies face today, as presented in the official Japanese media. The overall goal of this course is to bring students’ Japanese proficiency to more advanced level and help them to develop an active command of authentic reading materials. It is expected that by the end of the course students will reach B2 level according to CEFR and N2 level according to JLPT.

Learning Objectives

• The course is primarily focused on the development of reading and speaking skills in the Japanese language.
• · Reading: Students will be able to read, comprehend and summarize in Russian authentic Japanese language newspaper articles on major socio-political and socio-economic topics relevant in modern day Japan.
• ·Speaking: Students will be able to communicate, hold discussions and express their opinions regarding major socio-political and socio-economic topics relevant in modern day Japan in paragraph length discourse that is generally understood by native speakers unaccustomed to non-natives.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Students are able to read, comprehend and summarize in Russian authentic Japanese language newspaper articles on major socio-economic topics relevant in modern day Japan. They can hold discussions and verbally express their opinions regarding these topics.
• Students are able to read, comprehend and summarize in Russian authentic Japanese language newspaper articles on major socio-political topics relevant in modern day Japan. They can hold discussions and verbally express their opinions regarding these topics.

Course Contents

• Revision. Warming up.
• Topic 1: Socio-political topics
• Topic 2: Socio-economic topics
• Revision and Assessment

Assessment Elements

• Classwork for Reading and Vocabulary
• Classwork for Speaking and Discussion
• Examination

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 3rd module
  0.4 * Examination + 0.3 * Classwork for Speaking and Discussion + 0.3 * Classwork for Reading and Vocabulary

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Фесюн А. Г. Язык японских СМИ / А.Г. Фесюн. - Москва : ВШЭ, 2013. - 216 с. - ISBN 978-5-7598-0988-3. - URL: https://ibooks.ru/bookshelf/334277/reading (дата обращения: 12.10.2020). - Текст: электронный.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• 友松悦子, 宮本淳, & 和栗雅子. (2010). どんなときどう使う日本語表現文型500 : 日本語能力試験N1-N3の重要表現を網羅 = 500 essential Japanese expressions : a guide to correct usage of key sentence patterns (Vol. 改訂版). 東京: アルク. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=637349