31070 - Japanese Language and Linguistics 1

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Docente: Motoko Ueyama
  • Credits: 9
  • SSD: L-OR/22
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Asian Languages, Markets and Cultures (cod. 0980)

Learning outcomes


Course contents

The students will learn the basic of the grammar, the vocabulary and the orthography through lectures and exercises with native speaking instructors.   By the end of the course, the students will be able to conduct simple conversations (self-introductions and simple everyday life situations)  and read and write basic texts with thorough competence of hiragana and katakana and knowledge of a limited amount of kanji/Chinese characters (approximately 200).

Readings/Bibliography

Textbook

Minna no Nihongo Shokyu I (3A Corporations): Unità 1~16

Handouts

The supplementary materials to the textbook and the handouts for the exercise sessions are available in ECRIRE (Via Cartoleria,18/A ; tel. 051238424; opening hours 9-18), which is located right in from of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.   

Dictionaries

Kanji dictionary

Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary (Japanese for Busy People) (Paperback) > 2.230 caratteri : disponibile presso Feltrinelli International (circa 30 euro)

Dizionari giapponese-italiano, italiano-giapponese

Dizionario Giapponese-Italiano, Italiano-Giapponese (Zanichelli):  30.000 voci in totale

Dizionario Giapponese-Italiano, Italiano-Giapponese Compatto (Zanichelli): 26.500 voci in totale

Dizionario Italiano-Giapponese (Shogakukan) : 75.000 voci in totale

Dizionario Giapponese-Italiano (Shogakukan): 53.000 voci in totale

Dizionario elettronico: include il dizionario di kanji (Gakken), dizionario italiano-giapponese, dizionario giapponese-italiano (Shogakukan), dizionario inglese-italiano, dizionario italiano-inglese (Oxford), ecc.

Grammar

Yoko Kubota. (1989). Grammatica di Giapponese Moderno. (Cafoscarina)

Matilde Mastrangelo, Naoko Ozawa & Mariko Saito (2006).  Grammatica giapponese.  (HOEPLI)

Teaching methods

Lectures, exercise and tutoring sessions

Assessment methods

- Final exam: written and oral
- Mid-term (extra credit): beginning of the second semester

Teaching tools

Audio-visual materials

Office hours

See the website of Motoko Ueyama