Course Outline

This document is to give you a broad overview of what is expected for the Beginners Course.  It gives you the objectives and outcomes and also gives you your assessment schedule (scroll down, that is probably the most interesting element of this document for you.

1.1 Scope and sequence plan for the Japanese Beginners Preliminary Course 2011

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Outcomes	Topic 1	Topic 2	Topic 3
A student:	Family life, home and neighbourhood	Friends, recreation and pastimes	People, places and communities
1.1 establishes and maintains communication in	ü	ü	ü
1.2 manipulates linguistic structures to express ideas effectively	ü	ü	ü
1.3 sequences ideas and information	ü	ü	ü
1.4 applies knowledge of culture of Japan - to interact appropriately	ü	ü	ü
2.1 understands and interprets information using a range of strategies	ü	ü	ü
2.2 conveys the gist of and identifies specific information in texts	ü	ü	ü
2.3 summarizes the main points of a text	ü	ü	ü
2.4 draws conclusions from or justifies an opinion about a text	ü	ü	ü
2.5 identifies purpose, context and audience of a text	ü	ü	ü
2.6 identifies and explains aspects of the culture of Japanese in texts	ü	ü	ü
3.1 produces texts appropriate to audience, purpose and context	ü	ü	ü
3.2 structures and sequences ideas and information	ü	ü	ü
3.3 applies knowledge of diverse linguistic structures to convey information and express original ideas in Japanese	ü	ü	ü
3.4 applies knowledge of the culture of Japanese to production of texts	ü	ü	ü

1.2  Objectives and Outcomes

The outcomes and associated knowledge, understanding and skills that students are expected to achieve at the end of this course are listed below. These outcomes are derived from the objectives.

Objectives	Outcomes       A student:
Interacting	1.1	establishes and maintains communication in Japanese
	1.2	manipulates linguistic structures to express ideas effectively in Japanese
	1.3	sequences ideas and information
	1.4	applies knowledge of the culture of Japanese-speaking communities to interact appropriately
Understanding Texts	2.1	understands and interprets information in texts using a range of strategies
	2.2	conveys the gist of and identifies specific information in texts
	2.3	summarises the main points of a text
	2.4	draws conclusions from or justifies an opinion about a text
	2.5	identifies the purpose, context and audience of a text
	2.6	identifies and explains aspects of the culture of Japanese-speaking communities in texts
Producing Texts	3.1	produces texts appropriate to audience, purpose and context
	3.2	structures and sequences ideas and information
	3.3	applies knowledge of diverse linguistic structures to convey information and express original ideas in Japanese
	3.4	applies knowledge of the culture of Japanese-speaking communities to the production of texts.