Foreign language and translation C1 (Japanese)
Code: 101407 ECTS Credits: 9| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500249 Translation and Interpreting | OB | 2 | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Ayumi Shimoyoshi
- Email:
- ayumi.shimoyoshi@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- (jpn)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Other comments on languages
Besides Japanese, Catalan and Spanish will also be used in class.Teachers
- Sandra Ruiz Morilla
Prerequisites
This subject aims to develop the knowledge students obtained through the subject Foreign Language C for Translators and Interpreters 2 in the previous year.
At the beginning of the course students should be able to:
- Understand short, simple written texts about topics related to their immediate environment.
- Write very short, simple texts on topics related to their immediate environment.
- Recognise the basic phonological and lexical system and understand elementary spoken Japanese expressions related to their immediate environment.
- Use the phonological and lexical system and reproduce elementary spoken Japanese expressions related to their immediate environment.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The function of this subject is to consolidate the development of students' basic communication skills in Japanese to prepare them to translate from the language into their mother tongue.
All the subject's credits are for language learning.
At the end of the subject students should be able to:
- Understand written texts about everyday topics.
- Produce written texts on everyday topics.
- Understand information in short, simple oral texts about everyday topics related to their specific, immediate environment.
- Produce very short, simple oral texts on everyday topics related to their specific, immediate environment.
Competences
- Producing written texts in a foreign language in order to translate.
- Understanding written texts in a foreign language in order to translate.
- Working effectively in teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying graphic, lexical and morphosyntactic basic knowledge.
- Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying graphic, lexical and morphosyntactic knowledge.
- Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of written texts of several fields: Comprehending the communicative purpose of basic written texts about general topics.
- Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts of different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Implementing strategies in order to produce simple written texts about general topics.
- Implementing strategies in order to understand written texts from different fields: Implementing strategies in order to comprehend written texts about general topics.
- Producing written texts that are appropriate to their context and possess linguistic correctness: Producing simple written texts about general topics with linguistic correctness.
- Working effectively in teams: Working effectively in teams.
Content
In this subject, students will thoroughly study lessons 16 to 21 from the textbook Shokyū Nihongo Vol. 2, as well as some other materials provided via the Virtual Campus to develop their reading and oral comprehension and written and oral expression skills.
By studying the content in question, it is expected that students will develop not only their language skills but also their pragmatic, textual and sociocultural skills, as well as their ability to work in a group and autonomously.
Phonetic content:
- Improving the pronunciation of Japanese sounds
- Correcting common pronunciation errors
- Consolidating prior knowledge
Lexical content:
- Reinforcing vocabulary acquired previously
- Expanding vocabulary by learning about 380 new words
- Reinforcing knowledge of kanji characters, radicals and strokes by learning approximately 185 new kanji
- Learning about the formation and etymology of kanji
Grammatical content:
- Learning to use new common structures (potentials, conditionals, transitive and intransitive verbs, comparatives and superlatives, etc.)
- Learning new conjunctions used to form compound phrases
- Consolidating knowledge of grammatical features studied in lectures
Communicative and sociocultural elements:
- Lessons about family, hospitals, festivities and tourism
Methodology
Students will conduct different types of activities:
Directed activities:
- Presentations about cultural aspects, vocabulary and new grammatical structures
- Oral comprehension and expression exercises
- Grammar exercises, individually and in groups
- Practice of new grammatical and lexical elements
- Role-play exercises
- Correction of homework
- Assessable kanji and vocabulary tests for each unit and a grammar test for every two units
Supervised activities:
- Grammar and reading exercises
- Oral comprehension and expression exercises
- Compositions
- Preparation of a group presentation
Autonomous activities:
- Practice of handwriting
- Preparatory reading and study of new texts and grammatical elements
- Exercises assigned via the Virtual Campus
- Practice of oral comprehension
- Review of content studied previously
- Review and consolidation of lexical items learnt previously
Some lectures are conducted using a flipped classroom approach. Students must spend at least 20 hours studying each unit, including supervised and autonomous activities. Given the content and structure of the subject, it is important that students attend lectures consistently, and essential that they spend time preparing new materials, doing homework exercises and reviewing materials seen previously. It is assumed that they will do so in order to keep up with the pace of the subject.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lecture | 30 | 1.2 | 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 6 |
| Reading and oral comprehension activities | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 1, 5, 3 |
| Solving exercises | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 6 |
| Written and oral production activities | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 1, 4, 6 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Supervision and review of exercises | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 6 |
| Supervision and review of reading, oral and writing activities | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 6 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Preparation of reading comprehension activities | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 6 |
| Preparation of written and oral production activities | 40 | 1.6 | 2, 1, 5, 4, 6 |
| Study of new characters and new lexical and syntactic structures in each lesson | 60 | 2.4 | 2, 1, 5, 3 |
Assessment
Assessment is continuous. Students must provide evidence of their progress by completing tasks and tests. Task deadlines will be indicated in the course schedule on the first day of class.
Related matters
The above information on assessment, assessment activities and their weighting is merely a guide. The subject's lecturer will provide full information when teaching begins.
Review
When publishing final marks prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the lecturer.
Missed/failed assessment activities
Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for.
The lecturer will inform students of the procedure involved, in writing, when publishing final marks prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities.
Classification as "not assessable"
In the event of the assessment activities a student has performed accounting for just 25% or less of the subject's final mark, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript.
Misconduct in assessment activities
Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for the activity in question. In the case of misconduct in more than one assessment activity, the students involved will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject.
Students may not retake assessment activities in which they are found to have engaged in misconduct. Plagiarism is considered to mean presenting all or part of an author's work, whether published in print or in digital format, as one's own, i.e. without citing it. Copying is considered to mean reproducing all or a substantial part of another student's work. In cases of copying in which it is impossible to determine which of two students has copied the work of the other, both will be penalised.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grammar tests | 40 | 6 | 0.24 | 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 6 |
| Kanji and vocabulary tests | 30 | 3 | 0.12 | 2, 1, 5, 3 |
| Kanji, vocabulary, and grammar exercises | 10 | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 1, 5, 3 |
| Oral production and comprehension assessment activities | 10 | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 1, 4, 3, 6, 7 |
| Written production and comprehension assessment activities | 10 | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 6 |
Bibliography
- Shokyu Nihongo Vol.2, Tokyo University Of Foreign Studies, Sanseido, Tokyo, 2010.
- Diccionario japonés-español, Takahashi Masatake (ed.), Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1980.
- Diccionario español-japonés, Kuwana Kazuhiro et al., Shogakkan, Tokyo, 1991.
- A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar, The Japan Times, Tokyo, 1986.
- Kanji & Kana, Wolfgang Hadamitzky y Mark Span, Charles E. Tuttle, Tokyo, 1997.
- http://www.rikai.com
- http://www.kotoba.ne.jp
- http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp
- http://www.traduccionexpress.com/diccionario_japones-espanol.html
- http://jisho.org/words
Additional bibliographic references will be provided via the Virtual Campus.
Software
Word or similar software will be used for the written production and comprehension assignments.
PowerPoint or similar software will be used for the oral production and comprehension assignments.
Microsoft Teams or similar software will be used if online sessions are scheduled.