Bachelor 2025/2026

Practical Course of Japanese. Upper- Intermediate Level

Type: Elective course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 3 year, 1-4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

Contact hours: 196

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The discipline «Practical Сourse of the Japanese Language. Upper-Intermediate Level» is taught to junior students majoring in «Linguistics» from B1 level. The main goal of the course is to develop students’ foreign language communicative competence at the B2 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages / N3 (日本語能力試験, Japanese Language Proficiency Test).

Learning Objectives

• Development of foreign language communicative competence at level B2, which assumes the student's readiness and ability to freely carry out everyday and academic communication in Japanese in most communicative situations, as well as to use Japanese to implement the most common simple professional tasks

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Can understand fluently the general meaning, main ideas and most details of spoken and written Japanese, including specialized content typically found in academic communication
• Can produce detailed, coherent, and well-reasoned oral expressions in Japanese and generally communicate effectively in most situations commonly encountered in academic communication
• Creates structured, coherent and generally literate written texts in Japanese, taking into account the basic norms and rules of academic communication

Course Contents

• 1. Resemblance, similarity. Ellipsis
• 2. Comparison
• 3. Imperative-passive voice
• 4. Quoting and transmitting other people's words
• 5. Postpositions and auxiliary verbs
• 6. Cause, reason, fault.
• 7. Conditional mood. Comparison
• 8. Postpositions, auxiliary words. Expression of reason
• 9. Contradiction. Postpositions and auxiliary verbs
• 10. Expression of hypothesis
• 11. Expressing time. Introductory words and expressions

Assessment Elements

• Classroom work
  This element of control evaluates the student's use of a foreign language to solve various communication tasks in the process of direct interaction between the teacher and students in the classroom, including with the support of prepared homework.
• Current control module 1
  This element of control checks the current level of development of the student’s language skills and speech abilities and includes the assessment of phonetic, lexical, grammar tests, listening and reading tests and tasks, as well as oral and written speech products created by the student.
• Current control module 2
  This element of control checks the current level of development of the student’s language skills and speech abilities and includes the assessment of phonetic, lexical, grammar tests, listening and reading tests and tasks, as well as oral and written speech products created by the student
• Current control module 3
  This element of control checks the current level of development of the student’s language skills and speech abilities and includes the assessment of phonetic, lexical, grammar tests, listening and reading tests and tasks, as well as oral and written speech products created by the student.
• Current control module 4
  This element of control checks the current level of development of the student’s language skills and speech abilities and includes the assessment of phonetic, lexical, grammar tests, listening and reading tests and tasks, as well as oral and written speech products created by the student.
• Final written test
  This element of control evaluates the level of development of the student’s lexical and grammatical skills, listening and reading skills and abilities, as well as proficiency in written speech to solve various communication tasks.
• Oral exam
  This element of control evaluates the student’s level of oral speech proficiency for solving various communication tasks.

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 2nd module
  0.25 * Current control module 2 + 0.1 * Classroom work + 0.25 * Current control module 1 + 0.15 * Final written test + 0.25 * Oral exam
• 2025/2026 4th module
  0.25 * Current control module 3 + 0.1 * Classroom work + 0.25 * Current control module 4 + 0.15 * Final written test + 0.25 * Oral exam

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• New approach Japanese: intermediate course, Oyanagi, N., 2018
• New approach Japanese: intermediate course: work book, Oyanagi, N., 2018
• Японский язык для начинающих. Ч. 1, Нечаева, Л.Т., 2019
• Японский язык для начинающих. Ч. 2, Нечаева, Л.Т., 2018

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• New approach Japanese: intermediate course: listening comprehension exercise, , 2018

Authors

• MALTSEV MARK ALEKSANDROVICH
• Bukhaeva Mariia Iurevna