4th Year Reading & Writing Japanese

Goals

Reading

1. Able to read about common topics in newspapers, magazines, novels, etc. and understand the theme or plot and guess the content from context without using a dictionary (looking up key words in a dictionary is allowed)
2. Able to grasp information from a variety of written authentic material necessary in Japan such as advertisements, explanatory instructions, public notices, letters from the student's major field of study, without using a dictionary for simple material and using a dictionary to look up key words, etc. for difficult readings
3. Able to understand in detail readings above one's level by using a dictionary
4. Able to read about 1,000 kanji (including the Chinese readings)

Able to identify kanji radicals; be accustomed to using a kanji dictionary

Writing

1. Able to decide on a topic by oneself and develop an essay about it
2. Able to write one's impressions and opinions on a written text
3. Able to pull out the necessary information from a text, summarize, and report on it
4. Using expressions which describe the context and the relation of cause and effect, able to write compositions which grasp overall characteristics from concrete facts
5. Able to fill out various kinds of forms (resume, etc.)
6. Using a model, able to verify concretely certain facts, opinions, common views, etc.
7. Able to create a poem, haiku, a simple story
8. Able to distinguishing the difference between the spoken and written style and to write to a certain degree compositions consistently using the written style
9. Able to write about ?? kanji