Exams

The exams will be conducted in Respondus Lockdown Browser.  They are timed exams and have two parts: Listening/Reading comprehension part, and Vocabulary/Grammar/ Conversation Completion/Writing part.  Note-taking is not allowed.   

Final Oral Exam
During the final week, students sign up for the online final oral exam with the instructor.  The exam will be 15 minutes.  The topics covered in the exam are health, travel plans, future plan, and asking for favors and offering help.  Role play is one of the tasks.

NOVA Online courses have a requirement for proctored assessments to maintain compliance with our accreditation standards and the Higher Education Act’s identity verification requirements for online courses. College-wide, proctored assessments prove identity so students must show overall passing levels on the proctored assessments in order to pass an online course. In this online course, the average of all proctored assessment scores must be a passing percentage (above 60 percent) in order for you to pass the course regardless of your scores on other graded activities.  

Class Participation

In this course, you are required to participate in online meetings (we will use Zoom to host the meetings) where you can interact with me and other students as part of the learning process. You are expected to attend 5-6 sessions each semester and each session will last about one hour.  I will post announcements for the session dates and times.

Your participation in these meetings is crucial to your success in the class. I strongly recommend that you make an effort to participate in these meetings so you can practice what you have learned, ask questions, share learning experiences, and discuss anything of interest with your classmates. They will definitely help you learn Japanese. If you miss a live session, you can view a recording of it and earn credit! 

Homework
Vocabulary homework

• Familiarize yourself with new vocabularies in Quizlet and memorize them.
• Practice vocabularies and complete Canvas Vocabulary Quiz.

Listening homework           

• Practice and complete Listening Comprehension Exercises in Canvas.

Scripting dialogue exercise homework

• Practice dictating and typing words/phrases in a short dialogue between two people accurately, and getting ideas how the dialogue can be completed appropriately.

Kanji tracing homework

• Trace and practice writing new 23 Japanese characters in the worksheet with the correct stroke order and penmanship:

           
Kanji reading homework   

• Retype hiragana sentences to sentences in hiragana, katakana, and kanji appropriately in the worksheet.

Kanji typing homework

• Provide and type the appropriate reading of new Japanese characters in hiragana and complete Canvas Kanji Exercises.

           
Reading homework

• Using their knowledge of the real world, read and complete Reading Comprehension Exercises in Canvas.

Discussion                            

• Read discussion topics relating to introduced topic in each chapter, watch videos, post their opinions, and exchange ideas (at least two replies to classmates for full credits) in Canvas.

Speak Up homework

• Review slideshows to understand new grammatical patterns in each chapter.
• Post (record) in Canvas and practice speaking with the new patterns.

Chapter Writing Exercise

• Complete a writing exercise at the end of each chapter.  One topic is given and students handwrite their thoughts and ideas using vocabulary and grammar they learn in each chapter.