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FL10255: Japanese stage 2 semester 2 (3 credits)

Follow this link for further information on academic years Academic Year: 2013/4
Further information on owning departmentsOwning Department/School: Foreign Languages Centre
Further information on credits Credits: 3
Further information on unit levels Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Further information on teaching periods Period: Semester 2
Further information on unit assessment Assessment: CW 100%
Further information on supplementary assessment Supplementary Assessment: Reassessment not allowed
Further information on requisites Requisites:
Further information on descriptions Description: NB. Students wishing to take this unit should visit the Foreign Languages Centre website for information regarding enrolment.
Aims:
The course aims to consolidate language already acquired, for example in Stage 2 Semester 1, and encourages students to broaden the range of factual and expressive language functions required to communicate in a variety of situations, to acquire confidence in selecting appropriate language to achieve a range of everyday tasks and to introduce them to colloquial expressions and informal and formal styles in the written language.

Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the course students will be able to:
* Sustain a reasonably fluent straightforward description on one of a variety of subjects within his or her field of interest, presenting it as a linear sequence of points.
* Describe experiences and events, their dreams, hopes and ambitions.
* Briefly give reasons and explanations.
* Understand straightforward factual information about common everyday or job related topics, identifying both general messages and specific details, provided speech is clearly articulated in a generally familiar accent.
* Understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, leisure and education, including short narratives.
* Read notes and messages using Hiragana, Katakana and familiar Chinese characters.
* Write straightforward connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest, using Hiragana, Katakana and some Chinese characters.

Skills:
Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing in the target language - all assessed
Interpersonal skills, communication, team skills - facilitated
IT skills - facilitated
Intercultural skills - facilitated and taught
Autonomous learning - facilitated
Research and organisational skills - facilitated
Cognitive - taught.

Content:
The course continues to build on the skill base achieved through the four core skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course continues to reproduce real-life scenarios and introduces topics which present and practise the language of describing events and people, narrating and expressing likes and dislikes on topics of personal relevance. It follows a graded programme of study. Previous learning is consolidated and additional grammatical structures, specific to the target language, are introduced, which includes the present continuous and the te-form of verbs.
Further information on programme availabilityProgramme availability:

FL10255 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.

Foreign Languages Centre
Notes:
* This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2013/4 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2014/15 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2013/14.
* Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.
* Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.