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Sayaka Abe　安部さやか       E-mail: sabe@middlebury.edu    Office: FIC LF01-E      ext. 5486          Office Hours: W1-4pm, or by appointment.

JAPN0302A     Tue. & Thu.      8:00-9:15 a.m. (tentative)        Abe’s office >> now online  

JAPN0302Z     Mon. & Wed.    11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.   Davis Library >> now online 

Tobira grammar explanation (文法説明) & communicative practice page (still adding/drafting more as of 3.16.2020)

Full course syllabus (as of 2.4.2020) : Subject to change. Please check for updates.

Full schedule (tentative):

• Revised schedule: Lesson 13
• Revised schedule: Lesson 14
• Revised schedule Lesson 15

Proposed Language Table Calendar Spring 2020

• Monday, February 17: Tables begin.
• Friday, February 28: No tables; Winter Carnival.
• Monday, March 2: Tables resume.
• Friday, March 20: No tables; spring recess begins.
• Week of March 23: No tables; spring break.  
• Monday, March 30: Tables resume.
• Friday, April 17: No tables; Spring Student Symposium

• Friday, May 8: Last day of spring Language Tables.

• General course website  (general info)：https://sites.middlebury.edu/japn0302/
• Canvas (grades, protected materials)： https://middlebury.instructure.com/courses/5762
• Abe’s Japanese & linguistics resource page (Tobira): https://sites.google.com/a/middlebury.edu/japanese-linguistics-at-middlebury/topics

Welcome to Japanese 302! We will be discussing various topics on Japanese society and culture, including Japanese history, traditional arts and crafts, nature and mind, and politics, while using a wider range of expressions and communicative strategies. A larger proportion of authentic materials will be included than in previous semesters. We will continue to emphasize balanced communicative skills—speaking, listening, writing and reading, as well as cultural competence. This semester, you will be expected to perform more complex interpersonal and academic tasks by initiating questions, leading conversations, and facilitating discussions. We will also be practicing forming well-structured arguments through expository writing by incorporating information you obtained from sources and/or through interactions with others. The highlight of this semester is the interview project; you will be selecting a topic on Japanese culture/society and lead a 30 to 40-minute conversation with meue no hito (or “your superior”) prompted by your questions using honorifics and other politeness strategies.

Goals and expectations

Discourse and context sensitivity: You will be processing longer texts and conversations in various situational settings—both personal and academic, and sometimes a mixture of the two (e.g., talking to friends about academic topics). Accordingly, you will be expected to handle the unexpected and unknown, such as: inferring or anticipating messages; paying attention to main points and essential details; and personalizing and socializing through the cultural content you have learned. All of these tasks will be practiced through the active usage of new (and previously learned) vocabulary, grammatical items and transition words and discourse markers, many of which are more context- and style-specific, and require more intentional learning.

Independence and initiative: In order to maximally benefit from the classroom setting, you will be assigned a larger proportion of preparation work (予習) than review work. This includes reading grammar explanations and doing basic mechanical exercises in advance, so that we can focus on usage in textual and conversational contexts in class. Your review work should involve the active internalization (and personalization) of materials. Be proactive and intentional about utilizing learned expressions outside the class setting—for example, during Japanese Table lunches, events, media sources, and with tutors.

Course Materials ＜コース教材＞

1. [Required] Text『上級へのとびら』ISBN978-4-8724-447-0 (http://tobiraweb.9640.jp/)
2. [Required] Workbook『これで身につく文法力』ISBN978-4-87424-570-5
3. [Recommended] Reference & exercises 『きたえよう漢字力』ISBN978-4-87424-487-6
4. [Recommended] 『小論文への１２のステップ』 ISBN 978-4-88319-488-9

Japanese courses and materials at Middlebury

1st year:  Japanese 101 (fall) Genki I LL1-6; Japanese 102 (winter) Genki LL7-10 ; Japanese 103 (spring) Genki I&II LL11-16

2nd year: Japanese 201 (fall) Genki II LL17-23 ; Japanese 202 (spring) LL1-5

3rd year: Japanese 301 (fall) Tobira LL6-10; Japanese 302 (spring) Tobira LL11-15

4th year: Japanese 401 (fall); Japanese 402 (spring);

Japanese 475 — materials vary