Spoken Japanese 3 is an intermediate Japanese language course which aims to improve the learner’s command of modern spoken Japanese. The focus is on the oral and aural skills needed to understand and participate in general everyday conversations. With the course textbook is Yookoso! Continuing with Contemporary Japanese we aim to teach you the listening and oral skills needed to understand and participate in general everyday conversations. The activities in the textbook and accompanying workbook develop through particular themes (Travel, At Home, Transportation & Body and Health) to promote your communicative abilities. The course requires five hours of classes per week: two hours of lectures, two hours of tutorials and one hour of Language Lab.

a)  develop the linguistic skills to move from a basic knowledge of Japanese to a more complex intermediate level understanding, with a particular focus on oral and aural skills, allowing learners to understand and participate in a variety of everyday situations in Japanese.  

b)  develop better language-learning strategies

c)  consolidate grammatical and communicative understanding of introductory Japanese and begin to develop functional skills at an intermediate level.  

Mid-Semester Exam (Written + LL) 20%

Final Exam (Written + LL) 35%

Group Oral Presentation Abstract & Report  5%

Group Oral Presentation 15%

Homework Assignments 10%

Digital Story Telling Project 10%

Workbook Worksheet Completion/Attendance 5%  

Five hours per week

Tohsaku Yasu-Hiko, Yookoso: Continuing with Contemporary Japanese, Third Edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Tohsaku, Yasu-Hiko, Workbook / Laboratory Manual to accompany Yookoso : Continuing with Contemporary Japanese, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006