JAPN404: Advanced Japanese Presentation Communication |
This course aims to develop an advanced level of academic communication to finalize research projects using appropriate research methods. Students analyze and synthesize their research findings to orally present and to write academic papers using APA style. This course is a companion course for WLC 400 (Major Capstone). Taught in Japanese.
This course was designed to prepare us for both our Capstone papers as well as our Capstone presentations. As such it satisfies MLO 1.1, in instructing us in how to appropriately communicate in Japanese in different, more formal situations, than we had previously been prepared for. It gave us the Japanese language of academia that we had not received in our other classes. We learned how the differences between standard writing in Japanese compared to the type of writing that is expected of essays and scholarly works in Japanese. For instance, we had been taught to connect adjacent clauses that would have taken "and" in English, using the て-form in Japanese, for most of our conversation and writing up until this point. But in this class we learned that it was appropriate to connect such clauses in a formal essay using the 連用形 instead. So instead of saying 「研究が増えて、また研究しやすくなったと言える」the sentence becomes 「研究が増え、また研究しやすくなったと言える」. This comes from our abstract. We were also instructed on how to present in Japanese. Our presentation should follow, largely the same format of our paper, but our speech should be in polite form, rather than the dictionary form being used on the screen. I recommend for other evidence looking at our Capstone project, as everything we did in this class went into that.
This course was designed to prepare us for both our Capstone papers as well as our Capstone presentations. As such it satisfies MLO 1.1, in instructing us in how to appropriately communicate in Japanese in different, more formal situations, than we had previously been prepared for. It gave us the Japanese language of academia that we had not received in our other classes. We learned how the differences between standard writing in Japanese compared to the type of writing that is expected of essays and scholarly works in Japanese. For instance, we had been taught to connect adjacent clauses that would have taken "and" in English, using the て-form in Japanese, for most of our conversation and writing up until this point. But in this class we learned that it was appropriate to connect such clauses in a formal essay using the 連用形 instead. So instead of saying 「研究が増えて、また研究しやすくなったと言える」the sentence becomes 「研究が増え、また研究しやすくなったと言える」. This comes from our abstract. We were also instructed on how to present in Japanese. Our presentation should follow, largely the same format of our paper, but our speech should be in polite form, rather than the dictionary form being used on the screen. I recommend for other evidence looking at our Capstone project, as everything we did in this class went into that.