Year 12 7JPN – Japanese (NCEA L2)
Course Option Description
Head of Learning Area (HOLA): Mr G. Charton.
Why this course:
This course extends students’ ability and confidence when listening, reading, writing and speaking in Japanese. Students are moving towards becoming socially competent and will be able to use the language more flexibly in a wider range of familiar and some less familiar situations.
Course information:
Students will develop the skills needed to understand and use spoken and written Japanese; communicate effectively in Japanese for authentic purposes; and learn the conventions of communicating in Japanese and develop an understanding of Japanese culture.
Students will be able to respond to and use a wider variety of more complex language. They will be able to organise and analyse language which expresses information and justifies personal opinions and ideas, and drawing on comparisons. . They will be introduced to informal language and be able to use language variably and effectively in different text types and for different purposes.
Topics covered will be: Travel, Homestays and Japanese Pop Culture.
This course leads to:
Level 3 (8JPN).
This course is assessed using:
Achievements Standards.
Note: The running of this course will depend on sufficient number of students choosing this course. Students may be offered this as a ‘multi-leveled’ option.
Prerequisites
Students should have gained at least 10 credits at Level 1 Japanese (6JPN). If prerequisites are not met, entry may be granted at the discretion of the HoLA.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Japanese 2.1 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of spoken Japanese texts on familiar matters
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Japanese 2.3 - Interact using spoken Japanese to share information and justify ideas and opinions in different situations
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Japanese 2.2 - Give a spoken presentation in Japanese that communicates information, ideas and opinions
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Japanese 2.4 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of written and/or visual Japanese text(s) on familiar matters
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Japanese 2.5 - Write a variety of text types in Japanese to convey information, ideas, and opinions in genuine contexts