NCEA Level 3 Japanese
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mrs K. Crosby.
Japanese students can use language variably and effectively to express and justify their ideas and opinions and support or challenge those of others. Students have the opportunity to communicate information; ideas and opinions through increasingly complex and varied texts; explore the views of others, developing and sharing personal perspectives; engage in sustained interaction and produce extended texts; analyse ways in which Japanese culture is organised for different purposes and different audiences; analyse ways in which Japanese is organised in different texts and for different purposes; analyse how the use of Japanese expresses cultural meanings; explore how linguistic meaning is conveyed across languages.
Course Overview
Term 1
Travelling in Japan - cities, traditions and cultures
Term 2
Living and working in Japan - life style, jobs and future
Term 3
Social and environmental issues
Term 4
Revision
Recommended Prior Learning
Japanese is taken at Level 2 and a minimum of 14 credits prior to undertaking the Level 3 course. Exceptions to this are made for suitably qualified students with approval from the HOD.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
1E8 Squared Exercise Book
Assessment Information
Internal writing assessment (portfolio) in Term 1 & 2.Internal conversation assessment (portfolio) in Term 2 & 3.
Internal speech assessment in Term 3.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
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 3.3 - Interact clearly using spoken Japanese to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives in different situations
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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: 24
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.
Disclaimer
Rosmini College's timetable is student-driven and a new timetable is generated each year based on student subject selection. Unfortunately, while we do our best to avoid them, timetabling clashes may still occur and a few students may be required to choose an alternative subject option.
The 2025 timetable, including the number of classes in each subject and staffing allocations, is created based on student selections made in 2024. Because of this, changing subjects at the beginning of 2025 may not be possible. Please, make your subject choices carefully.