This unit focuses on enhancing students' skills in aural comprehension, oral expression and intercultural competence by developing students' skills for using Japanese effectively in everyday situations to discuss common topics of conversation and for negotiating commonly encountered situations. In addition to the language focus, this unit also develops students' intercultural competence by examining the ways in which culture and language are connected, and the ways in which values are transmitted through language. -- Course Website
Instructor: Mr Hiroshi Suzuki