Year 13 8JPN – Japanese (NCEA L3)

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 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.