Written Expression
Written Expression 4/5
Level: 4 and 5
Language of Instruction: Japanese
Quota: max. 15 students
Class: once a week (90 mins x 15 weeks)
Equivalent to 2 KUIS credits
Instructor: Young Yi
In this course, students will develop their strategy to read and understand various writings, and will acquire Japanese vocabulary, expressions and techniques necessary for writing, so that they can improve their comprehensive writing skills.
In addition, this course will aim to deepen our understanding of Japanese society and culture through the contents of sentences picked up in class and to increase our knowledge in order to understand the background and context of sentences written in Japanese.
Class Contents
Read and write emails and SNS messages. (Polite email, communication with friends)
Read and write the explanation. (Cuisine of my country, convenient things in my country, etc.)
Read and write an essay. (About Japan / Japanese language, university life, etc.)
<Read a text>
Find out how to read kanji, vocabulary, and expressions.
Read on your own.
Discuss what you read in class.
<Write a sentence>
Make a plan for writing.
Write a sentence referring to the sentences students read as a model.
Revise it based on the teacher's feedback.
Share the sentence with classmates and discuss your thoughts.
Revise again with reference to everyone's impressions.
Teaching materials / reference materials
Teaching materials will be distributed and introduced in the class.
Evaluation criteria
Evaluation is based on class participation (including attendance) and assignment submission.
Precautions for taking this course
In class, we will only use Japanese.
Written Expression 6/7
Level: 6 and 7
Language of Instruction: Japanese
Quota: max. 15 students
Class: once a week (90 mins x 15 weeks)
Equivalent to 2 KUIS credits
Instructor: Shigemi Kunikata
In this course, students will develop their strategy to read and understand various writings, and will acquire Japanese vocabulary, expressions and techniques necessary for writing, so that they can improve their comprehensive writing skills.
Classes are divided into three parts: "advertising," "newspaper," and "Japanese culture.”
In "advertisement", students will work on comparative sentences and planning sentences, and in "newspaper", they will work on summary sentences and translations. In the final "Japanese culture", students will choose "my recommendation" from the Japanese culture and create a poster.
The aim is to deepen the understanding of Japanese social culture from the content taken up in the class, and to accumulate knowledge to introduce their own social culture in Japanese. We will learn useful sentence expressions in the real world.
Teaching materials / reference materials
Teaching materials will be distributed and introduced in the class.
Evaluation criteria
Class participation: 20%
Assignments: 50% (in-class assignments, homework, reflection)
Final task: 30% (poster)