Bachelor
2024/2025
Foreign Language (Japanese)
Type:
Elective course (International Program 'International Relations and Global Studies')
Area of studies:
International Relations
Delivered by:
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
When:
3 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Aleksandra Martynenkova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
7
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Students learn the language starting with the Elementary level. The course aims at developing basic communicative competences in the chosen foreign language that include: communicative competence, language competence, socio-cultural competence, cognitive competence.
Learning Objectives
- Gain basic knowledge of Japanese phonetics, vocabulary and grammar.
- Basic skills of constructing a coherent text/dialogue within the studied topics, as well as skills of translation from Russian into Japanese and from Japanese into Russian using the studied vocabulary and grammatical constructions.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- 1. Students demonstrate the knowledge of the hiragana and katakana, have an understanding of the phonetic system of Japanese language.
- Students can build basic sentences, talk about themselves, ask and show directions, talk about costs and order
- Students can talk about what happened to them in the past, add adverbs and adjectives to their speech, combine several verbs in one sentence; allow or forbid an action
- Students can read and write kanji of basic verbs, directions
- Students can use simple forms for everyday communication
- Students can compare subjects and classes of subjects with each other, talk about future plans, talk about feeling unwell, use constructions of excuses and wishes
- Studens can write and read about 145 Japanese characters
Course Contents
- 1. Introduction to the course. Hiragana. Katakana
- 2. Chapters 1-3: "New Friends", "Shopping", "Making a Date"
- 3. Chapters 4-6: "The First Date", "A Trip to Okinawa", "A Day in Robert's Life"
- 4. Chapters 7-9: "Family Picture", "Barbecue", "Kabuki"
- 5. Chapters 10-12: "Winter Vacation Plans", "After the Vacation", "Feeling Ill"
Assessment Elements
- Quiz on the learnt vocabulary
- Quiz on learnt Chapter
- Reading hiragana and katakana
- Oral examThe exam consists of two parts: the story of the prepared topic and answers to the teacher's questions; reading and translation of the text
- Written exam
- Kanji quizWriting all the readings and meanings of a character, its radical, the order of writing; writing characters and translating sentences
Interim Assessment
- 2022/2023 2nd module0.3 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.3 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.3 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.3 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Reading hiragana and katakana + 0.2 * Reading hiragana and katakana + 0.2 * Written exam + 0.2 * Written exam
- 2022/2023 4th module0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.3 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.3 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.3 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.3 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Written exam + 0.2 * Written exam
- 2023/2024 2nd module0.2 * Kanji quiz + 0.2 * Kanji quiz + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.2 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.2 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Written exam + 0.2 * Written exam
- 2023/2024 4th module0.2 * Kanji quiz + 0.2 * Kanji quiz + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.2 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.2 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Written exam + 0.2 * Written exam
- 2024/2025 2nd module0.2 * Kanji quiz + 0.2 * Kanji quiz + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.2 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.2 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Written exam + 0.2 * Written exam
- 2024/2025 4th module0.2 * Kanji quiz + 0.2 * Kanji quiz + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.2 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.2 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Written exam + 0.2 * Written exam
- 2025/2026 3rd module0.2 * Kanji quiz + 0.2 * Kanji quiz + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.2 * Quiz on learnt Chapter + 0.2 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Quiz on the learnt vocabulary + 0.2 * Written exam + 0.2 * Written exam
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- GENKI 1: an integrated course in elementary Japanese : workbook, , 2016
- GENKI 1: an integrated course in elementary Japanese, Banno, E., 2013
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Kanji: look and learn : 512 Kanji with illustrations and mnemonic hints, Banno, E., 2013
- Японский язык для начинающих. Ч. 1, Нечаева, Л.Т., 2019
- Японский язык для начинающих. Ч.2, Нечаева, Л.Т., 2016