NCEA Level 3 Japanese
Course Description
Head of Faculty - Kaihautuu: Mrs P. McMillan.
Learning a language provides many opportunities for critical, creative and logical thinking.
Students will
- become more independent learners as they manage their own programs using a range of resources
- be able to respond critically to more complex and varied texts and share and justify their own ideas and opinions as well as explore the views of others.
- be able to analyse how the language is organised in different texts and for different purposes and how it expresses cultural meanings.
- be able to guess unfamiliar language from its use in context and have some understanding of authentic material in supported situations.
Topics covered are:
Leisure
Land and People
Travel and Tourism
Assessment:
Minimum of 3 standards worth 15 credits
2 Internally assessed standards : 3.2 Oral presentation and 3.5 Writing
and a choice of 1 externally assessed standards either 3. 1 Listening and 3.4 Reading
Possibility of 4 week immersion stay with our future sister school in Fukuoka during the Christmas break at the end of Y13.
Recommended Prior Learning
Achievement in Year 12 Japanese in Reading, Writing and Speaking
Pathway
You cannot enroll in Y13 Japanese course without any prior knowledge or study of the Japanese language. Any dispensation must be discussed with Head of faculty - Kaihautuu.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
External
NZQA Info
Japanese 3.1 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of extended spoken Japanese texts
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Japanese 3.2 - Give a clear spoken presentation in Japanese that communicates a critical response to stimulus material
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Japanese 3.4 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of extended written and/or visual Japanese texts
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Japanese 3.5 - Write a variety of text types in clear Japanese to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 18
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.