Term (Contact hours) .................. WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER, & FALL (33 hours, each)
Class & Section ................................ INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATION  SA
Instructor ........................................... TBA
Meeting day & Time ....................... Saturdays, 1:00-4:00 p.m.

PREREQUISITE
Beginning Conversation  or 45 contact hours of Japanese (or equivalent).

COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:  Talk about the characteristics of things and places, the weather; express one’s thoughts about experiences and gratitude; talk about tourist destinations and one’s hometown; ask the meaning of a word you do not know; talk about giving and receiving gifts, compliment someone about closing; talk about someone’s likes and skills, talk about what you would like to do; tell where a certain event is taking place, invite someone to an event, receive or decline an invitation, state a reason for declining an invitation; talk about what you want to do, talk about weekend plans, travel plans, and business trips; talk about a sequence of actions; ask someone to do something for you, request delivery of something by a certain means at a certain time, give directions to a taxi driver; ask and answer means of transportation, route, and time requested to reach a destination, ask and answer departure and arrival times. NO WRITING IS TAUGHT IN THIS CLASS.

TEXTBOOKS AND MATERIALS
1. Required: Association for Japanese-Language Teaching. (2020). Japanese For Busy People  I   Romanized VERSION (Lessons 11-20). Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International. [Available at the  Kinokuniya Bookstore, San Francisco--Geary at Webster. Phone 415-567-7625].
2.  Practice on the Internet
https://japanese-phrases.sakura.ne.jp
https://www.ajalt.org/sfyj

EVALUATION
1. One final exam (2.5 hours).
2. Upon successful completion (80% or higher attendance rate and 80% or higher final exam score) of the course, a STUDENT PROGRESS REPORT will be written if requested at the time you take the final exam.
3. Your final exam score (%) and attendance (%) will be kept in a digitized form @STUDENT GRADES AND INFORMATION REPOSITORY.

TEACHING STYLE
The instructor will create a relaxed, low-anxiety atmosphere through which you can acquire the previously mentioned course objectives with less effort and with ease. The instructor will use an eclectic teaching method.

PROCEDURES
1. The instructor will follow the CALENDAR / Weekly Schedule (see below).
2. In class, student and teacher (and student and student) will engage in interactive language activities, a variety of exercises, using Japanese as much as possible. The instructor, however, will use some mechanical and meaningful drills, when necessary, to develop your kinetic memory for the training of the perceptual motor skills.
3. Students will reinforce and develop vocabulary, structure, listening (audio CDs, available in the textbook) and conversational skills through weekly assignments.
4. The class, however, may be conducted in accordance with the needs of the students in class within the course objectives.

CALENDAR / Weekly Schedule

Week 1. Lessons 11&12

Week 2. Lesson 13

Week 3. Lesson 14

Week 4. Lesson 15

Week 5. Lesson 16

Week 6.  Lesson 17

Week 7. Lesson 18

Week 8. Lesson 19

Week 9.  Review

Week 10. FINAL EXAM

Week 11. Lesson 20. Last Day of Class.

*Weekly assignments on specific dates will be available from your instructor in class.
 

PLEASE NOTE
1. You are expected to listen to the audio files, memorize new words, read the grammar explanation in the textbook and to complete all assignments before coming to class.
2. From time to time short quizzes may be given in class.
3. Please be on time for class; otherwise, you interrupt the lesson for others. Regular class attendance and participation are essential for language learning.
4. Excessive absences (more than 3 class meetings) may be cause for repetition of the course.
5. The results of your final exam (%) and attendance (%) will be kept in a digitized form @STUDENT GRADES AND INFORMATION REPOSITORY.  Your PROGRESS REPORT will be kept in the Soko Gakuen Records Office, and the Office will release it only upon your request.
6. When you obtain a score of 80% or higher on the final exam, you move up to a higher level class. Soko Gakuen's exit criteria for each class/level are based on the 1987 ACTFL Japanese Language Proficiency Guidelines.

POLICY ON FINAL EXAM
There will be NO MAKE-UP FINAL for this course.

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