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FACULTY OF LETTERS & SCIENCE / JPN101 - JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Code: JPN101 Course Title: ELEMENTARY JAPANESE GRAMMAR I Theoretical+Practice: 4+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer GONCA VAROĞLU (goncavaroglu@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Japanese
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
Teaching elementary Japanese Grammar (Part I)

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Have knowledge about Elementary Japanese Grammar. PO-1 Have knowledge about Japanese grammar, Japanese culture, Japanese literature, Japanese language structure and education and be skilful at these items.
Examination
LO-2 Have the skills on spekaing Elementary Japanese. PO-1 Have knowledge about Japanese grammar, Japanese culture, Japanese literature, Japanese language structure and education and be skilful at these items.
PO-2 Become skilful at Japanese writing, reading and speaking.
PO-22 Acquire the skill of analyzing languages outside their own cultures by learning and understanding the mechanism and functioning of a foreign language.
Examination
LO-3 Have the skills on reading Elementary Japanese. PO-1 Have knowledge about Japanese grammar, Japanese culture, Japanese literature, Japanese language structure and education and be skilful at these items.
PO-2 Become skilful at Japanese writing, reading and speaking.
PO-22 Acquire the skill of analyzing languages outside their own cultures by learning and understanding the mechanism and functioning of a foreign language.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
The aim of this course is to teach and make the students gain the skills of Elementary Japanese Grammar. Thus they can start to use some Japanese patterns. Students learn Hiragana – Katagana alphabets (and also some Kanjis) to be able to follow the lessons.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Teaching Japanese Greetings and practicing of Japanese Hiragana and Katakana alphabets. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
2 Reviewing of Japanese Hiragana and Katakana alphabets. Usage of “wa…desu” / “wa…desuka” / “wa….dewa arimasen” / “mo….desu”. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
3 Teaching demonstratives and particle “no”. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
4 Usage of demonstratives and polite form of them. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
5 Telling the time, usage of particles “kara” and “made”, present and past forms of verbs in polite( i.e. -masu) form. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
6 Usage of particles “-e,-to” and “–de”. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
7 Usage of “V-masenka”, “V-masho” and particle “-wo”. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
8 mid-term exam
9 9 Usage of verbs “agemasu” and “moraimasu”. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
10 Usage of -i and –na adjectives. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
11 Usage of particle “-ga” and conjunction “–kara”. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
12 Usage of “imasu” and “arimasu”. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
13 Usage of counting words. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
14 Usage of past - affirmative and negative forms of nouns and adjectives. Usage of ”X wa Y yori…..desu” pattern . Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
15 Reviewing the past units. Lecturing and discussion method followed by questioning & answering
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Tanaka,Y., Makino, A., Shigekawa, A., vd. 2009. Minnano Nihongo Shokyu 1 Honsatsu. Tokyo: Suriiēnettowāku.
2 Tanaka,Y., Makino, A., Shigekawa, A., vd. 2009. Minnano Nihongo Shokyu 1 – Honyaku Bunpo Kaisetsu. Tokyo: Suriiēnettowāku.
Required Course instruments and materials
PC, books, projector, CD

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 4 14 56
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 14 28
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 14 28
       c) Performance Project 2 14 28
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 8 16
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 2 11 22
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 180