-This lower intermediate refresher program aims to continue to update, maintain and improve students' Japanese language ability. Following on from Japanese Refresher B, this course continues to work on all four skills as it reviews the functions and grammar required to converse and understand Japanese at an intermediate level.

- With the course textbook Yookoso! Continuing with Contemporary Japanese & the accompanying Workbook students will work through various activities relating to a number of themes. The themes covered in the last four chapters of the textbook include: Do you remember?, Travel, At Home, and Transportation.

- Develop the linguistic skills to move from a basic knowledge of Japanese to a more complex intermediate level understanding.

- With a particular focus on their grammatical knowledge and aural skills, students will learn to better understand and participate in a variety of everyday situations in Japanese. 

- Develop language-learning strategies to help students' take charge of their own Japanese language learning.

- Consolidate grammatical and communicative understanding of lower intermediate Japanese and begin to develop  functional skills at an intermediate level. 

- Learn a variety of socio-cultural information useful to intermediate learners of Japanese.

- Consolidate reading skills and develop familiarity with up to 500 kanji.

Workbook Pre-Class Preparation Tasks (20%), Homework (30%), Take-home Final Exam (40%), Attendance & Participation (10%)

1) Workbook Pre-Class Preparation Tasks (20%):

- Pre-class preparation tasks-both written and listening-will introduce the topic for the week and focus on the grammar and topics under discussion. Some tasks will be taken from the Yokoso Online Site, which on completion will be emailed to the instructor, while other tasks will be taken from the Yokoso Workbook.

- Students will also be required to prepare some activities to work on in the class the following week, including memorizing selected vocabulary.

2) Homework (30%): Weekly Homework Assignments will cover material covered in class. They will include some grammatical questions and some listening activities. Some of the homework assignments will be completed on-line in the course Wattle site.

3)  Take-home Final Exam (40%): The final exam will assess how much the students Japanese language level has improved during the course, and will encourage the students to review the material covered consolidating their language proficiency.

4) Attendance & Participation ( 10%): Attendance will be taken at each class and student participation in class discussion and activities makes up the participation mark.

1.5 hours class room teaching per week and 1.5 hours non contact.

Japanese Refresher A & B or permission by the course convener

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

Yokoso Student Site: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072408162/information_center_view0/

Additional course materials, audio files and quizzes will be available through the ANU Wattle course site.

No Specific Requirement