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Course: Japanese Language Studies 2 (NCEA L1 - Japanese)

Sara Lake —

This course integrates the core strands of language knowledge, communication and cultural knowledge. This course consolidates topics studied from year 9 and 10. Students should be able to understand more complex language and communicate beyond the immediate context e.g.past and future events and can understand and produce a variety of text types.

When:

Semester Two

Subject Area(s)

Japanese

NCEA L1 Students who have completed Year 9 and 10 Japanese and those who completed Semester 1

In learning Japanese, students learn to communicate in an additional language, develop the capacity to learn further languages and explore different world views in relation to their own.
(New Zealand Curriculum- Learning Languages)

In this semester two course the following topics will be covered;

  • City and country living - your neighbourhood, giving directions.
  • School trips; travel time and transportation.
  • Arubaito - part-time work; spending money.
  • What do you want to be? Careers and aspirations; what you are good at and like to do.
  • Homestay - seeing your home through Japanese eyes; cultural similarities and differences.

Requirements

Practical Components - Spoken presentation to be recorded $20 for Language Perfect for vocabulary learning. (optional) Textbook/workbook- Iitomo textbook and student workbook ($30)tbc. These can be issued by the teacher however, these must be returned promptly at the end of the course or they will also be invoiced. The student activity book can be ordered by the student directly, by their school or through the teacher. If ordered through the online teacher this will be invoiced to the student (as the student writes in this and gets to keep the student activity book). In this Japanese course the participating students become a community where they can share common interests to do with the Japanese culture. Anyone wanting to take this course will need to fully participate in ongoing online discussion, (on our online space) or in the online session. Learning how to communicate in Japanese is a key part of the course.

Assessment

AS90893
Demonstrate understanding of Japanese spoken texts (listening) External Exam
5 credits

AS90896
Demonstrate understanding of a variety of Japanese texts (reading) External Exam
5 credits

AS90897
Write a variety of text types in Japanese on areas of most immediate relevance
(internal writing portfolio) 5 credits

About the Teacher

Sara Lake has been teaching for seventeen years. The past six years she has taught level 1 Japanese online through NetNZ. She is a registered teacher at Marian College. Subjects she teaches are Japanese, Social Studies and Tourism. Mrs Lake lived in Japan for a year as an AFS student and worked as a Japanese speaking guide for nine years prior to becoming a teacher. She loves playing touch, reading and walking her dogs.

Enrol now:

http://www.netnz.org/enrolment/