Universität Wien

150108 UE Japanese Grammar I (2022W)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 15 - Ostasienwissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

Registration for all classes, please (Introduction, Jap. Grammar und Japanese Communication)
In diese Übung werden bevorzugt Studierende der Betriebswirtschaft, der Internationalen Betriebswirtschaft sowie Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Ostasiens aufgenommen.

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English, Japanese

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Wednesday 09.11. 15:00 - 17:45 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 16.11. 15:00 - 17:45 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 23.11. 15:00 - 17:45 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 30.11. 15:00 - 17:45 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 07.12. 15:00 - 17:45 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 14.12. 15:00 - 17:45 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 11.01. 15:00 - 17:45 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 18.01. 15:00 - 17:45 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 25.01. 15:00 - 17:45 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 01.02. 15:00 - 17:45 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Please direct questions concerning registration for BJ1 to the SSS/SPL, not the lecturers.

The Introduction to the Japanese Language is a prerequisite for both Japanese Grammar I (this course) and Japanese Communication. All three are intended to be taken together in the same semester, please register for all three from the start.

Grammar I will cover the basics of Japanese grammar as well as some everyday vocabulary and elementary kanji.

PREREQUISITES:
* proficiency in English —you should obviously be comfortable with the idea of studying a foreign language in English, C1 strongly recommended
* at least 12 h/week available to dedicate to the class (that’s just G1, and including weeks with no class)
* PC, stable broadband connection, technical means for teleconferencing and high-quality voice recording and image scanning
* Introduction to the Japanese Language
* advance registration
* textbook, see “reading list”

At the end of this course students should
* be able to read, understand and translate into English basic Japanese sentences and dialogues;
* understand and be able to explain the grammar underlying these texts;
* have a vocabulary of at least ~500 words (active and passive) and ~200 kanji (passive only);
* be able to form correct (not necessarily idiomatic) sentences and short dialogues based on this knowledge.

The focus will be on constructively building an understanding of Japanese grammar and vocabulary by way of Japanese-English translation. (The students will put this in active use, e.g. conversation, essay writing &c., in Japanese Communication.)

Students prepare for each lesson with the help of the material provided on Moodle, meaning that they should know the lesson’s vocabulary, have an idea of how the new grammar works, be able to read the text aloud, even offer up a translation, but also, perhaps most importantly, come with questions.
Face-time is meant primarily for questions, review, testing, and such, though we’ll run through the week’s content together, time permitting.

To give an impression of the pace: The plan is to cover about one lesson of the textbook per class, finishing at least lesson 9, ideally lesson 11.

Assessment and permitted materials

This course uses continuous assessment (hat immanenten Prüfungscharakter). The idea is that students don’t study for, say, a particular test but simply keep up with the course—and demonstrate that regularly. As such students may be asked to perform a variety of tasks, online and/or offline, with little or no prior announcement, and their entire activity over the course of the semester may be used for assessment.
These tasks will primarily be in the form of short written revision tests, but may also include oral revision, ad-hoc questions, homework etc. Naturally, kanji, vocabulary, and grammar knowledge are on the menu, but also, for example, graded reading (fluency & pronunciation), oral translation, ad-hoc reading comprehension and grammar questions, dictation, listening and listening comprehension exercises, research on specific points of grammar and so forth.

Insofar as that includes test-like tasks, that is, work to be completed within a specific time period on the order of minutes to a few hours, these are full open book if held online, but no materials or aids are generally permitted if held on-site. Regardless, students must do all work on their own, without any outside help. For the purposes of this stipulation, using machine translation services or other software that may be classified as AI counts as outside help as well.
There is a strict zero-tolerance policy against cheating, plagiarism, and ghost-writing.

Naturally not all questions, exercises and the like count as a task, some are just off-the-record practice, but there may still be an impact on active participation.
Some weeks may have no tasks, others multiple. Some tasks may be optional/voluntary. Students are not entitled to participate in these.

Speaking of, active participation in class and on the forums, e.g. being prepared, asking and answering questions, volunteering to read and translate, contributes to the grade. It, as well as cooperation between students, is very much encouraged and deemed an important element of the course.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

* Attendance is mandatory. Students who don’t show up for the first session will be de-registered as a matter of course. Missing more than 2 classes results in a failing grade, and tardiness may be counted as absence at the discretion of the lecturer. Further, students are not entitled to make up for missed tasks.
However, in the interest of health and safety students are strongly encouraged to stay home if they’re not feeling well. To that end, some or all of these rules may be relaxed on a case-by-case basis at the sole discretion of the lecturer. Please make sure that you’re up-to-date on your COVID19 vaccinations.

* Everyone who has a valid registration after the deadline for deregistration and completes at least one task will receive a grade.

* More than 60 percentage points are required to pass the course (>60 → 4/D, >70 → 3/C, >80 → 2/B, >90 → 1/A), comprising tasks (90 %) and active participation (10 %).
Finally, up to 5 percentage points may be awarded / docked at the sole discretion of the lecturer.
The tasks score is calculated by averaging the individual tasks, dropping the worst scores.

Examination topics

Everything covered in the course, in class and/or on the e-learning platform (Moodle), including, but not limited to, the presentations/slides, textbook, vocabulary & kanji lists, grammar script & sheets, and forum discussions.

Reading list

Textbook: Bunka shokyū nihongo I. Tekisuto. Kaiteiban. Bonjinsha 2013 [ISBN 978-4-89358-858-6]
Available at Facultas bookshop in “Hof 1” on Campus.

Additional material may be distributed in class and/or via the e-learning platform (Moodle).

Association in the course directory

JMA M1 for Ecos-students
EC Wirtschaftskommunikation Japanisch I

Last modified: Mo 12.09.2022 15:08