JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION 2

L-OR/22 - 9 CFU - Annual Tuition

Teaching Staff

LUCA CAPPONCELLI


Learning Objectives

Knowledge and understanding: students will be able to listen and comprehend basic conversations patterns encountered in daily life and generally follow their contents. Logical comprehension of basic syntactic patterns. Knowledge of 300 kanji and 1500 words of general use. Dialogic skills connected to everyday topics, cultural topics, personal topics. Writing and reading skills connected to everyday topics, cultural topics, personal topics.
Applying knowledge and understanding: the students will be able to apply the achieved skills autonomously and to connect with daily life context (asking or giving information, environment descriptions, essential dialogue, reading and writing skills).
Making judgments: comprehension and production of data and information. The students will approach the study of Japanese language and culture free form any ethnocentric perspective.
Communication skills: enhancement of communication skills will by class and laboratory activities such as simulations of ordinary contexts (giving or transferring information, daily topics, topics linked to Japanese culture) aimed at providing proper communication skills connected to a wide range of topics.
Learning skills: alongside the class and laboratory activities, the students will also carry out individual activities aimed at improving their analysis skills and reinforcing their reading, writing, listening, speaking and translation skills.


Course Structure

Face-to-face lectures, workshops and individual activities.

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.



Detailed Course Content

Introduction and consolidation of the Japanese writing systems, basic morphology, syntax and phonology. Reading, listening, writing, speaking and translation skills will be the main activities based on the textbooks. The course will adopt also audio and visual material aimed to male the students get familiar with topics related to Japanese culture.



Textbook Information

1) Silvana De Maio, Carolina Negri, Junichi Oue (a cura di) Corso di lingua giapponese, volume 2, Hoepli, Milano ISBN 978-88-203-3664-6

2) Silvana De Maio, Carolina Negri, Junichi Oue (a cura di) Corso di lingua giapponese, volume 3, Hoepli, ISBN 9788820336653

3) Minna no nihongo Shokyu II. Honsatsu, 3A Corporation, Tokyo, 1998.

4) Minna no nihongo Shokyu II. Kanji, 3A Corporation,Tokyo,1998.

5) Minna no nihongo shokyu II. Renshucho, 3A Corporation, Tokyo, 2000.

6) Minna no nihongo shokyu II.Chokai task, 3A Corporation, Tokyo, 2003.

Recommended grammar books:

Seiichi Makino, Michio Tsutsui,, A dictionary of basic Japanese grammar, The Japan Times, Tokyo, 1986.

Matilde Mastrangelo, Naoko Ozawa, Mariko Saito, Grammatica giapponese, Hoepli, Milano 2006.

Oue Jun’ichi, Manieri Antonio, Grammatica d'uso della lingua giapponese. Teoria ed esercizi. Livelli N5N3 del Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Hoepli, Milano 2019.

Additional reference material will be distributed during class activities or available on Studium digital platform.:

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied. For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programme can be consulted in the Library.




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