JAPN10001 Japanese 1 Oral 2 & Project Information Sheet Sem 1, 2020

Oral 2: Role play &

Cultural Discovery Project

Aims: This semester you have started your Japanese language study. Over the past 10 weeks,
you have learnt how to say your name, ask basic questions about each other, talking about
daily routine and inviting people to do something together in Japanese. Before embarking on
further study in Japanese, this assessment will provide you with an opportunity to put into
practice what you have learnt in this subject, reflect on your language and intercultural
interaction skills and set your own goals for your future learning.

Tasks: This task is two tiered. First, you will converse with your peer in Japanese. Then, in
pairs, reflect on your conversation and set goals for your future study.

Oral 2 Task: Role play: Imagine you just met a person with whom you can only communicate
in Japanese. How would you start a conversation with him/her?

You will be assigned a partner from your Seminar 2 during the week starting on 25 May to
converse with in Japanese. You will be paired by your teacher and notified on LMS. Classes
with an odd number of students will have one group of three.

You and your partner will then conduct a conversation online via Zoom to perform your role
play. Record your Zoom session using the software’s function and submit in one week. You are
not allowed to change your assigned partner. The role play will be 2-and-half to 3-minutes
long. If you are in a group of three, you may talk for 4- to 4-and-half-minutes. You must say
your name and student ID in English before you start your conversation and show your face
(turn on the camera) while recording the conversation.

During the role play, you will cover three tasks:

1) introduce yourself,
2) talk about your daily activities and events, and
3) invite your partner to do something together.

You will receive an individual mark for this assessment. Please remember to record your
roleplay with Zoom – you will need this recording to do your Cultural Discovery Project.

Objectives: By doing this task, you will show that you can:

⚫ Produce Japanese sentences in grammatically accurate manner and with

appropriate pronunciation;

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⚫ Comprehend Japanese sentences aurally; and,

⚫ Use learnt Japanese language structures to function appropriately in real

conversation, when you meet someone for the first time.

Assessment details and due dates:

Oral 2: Role play (Weight: 10%; Due Date: Friday Week 12)

Criteria: /20
• Contents (3)
• Pronunciation (2)
• Fluency (2)
• Flow and structure of conversation, appropriateness (3)
• Accuracy (5)
• Range of language (5)

Cultural Discovery Project: You will listen to the recording of your role play from Oral 2, then
1) transcribe the role play, 2) analyse the conversation, and 3) set goals for your further study
of Japanese.

1) When transcribing, you must write out the conversation verbatim – if you notice any
mistakes, leave them as mistakes (see next point).

2) For your analysis, you should:

a) Identify errors in the transcript and make corrections. You may wish to use different
colours to indicate which text is said incorrectly and what it should be corrected to.
b) Reflect on your communication and cultural aspects of communication for the role
play, comparing the role play with a typical interaction when you meet someone for
the first time in your own language. What would be similar, what would be different.
How so?
c) Summarise your analysis and outline how you will modify your Japanese learning
strategy.

3) After completing the above steps, set your own goals for your further study.

The following webpages may help you with setting your own language-learning goals.

https://www.lindsaydoeslanguages.com/successful-language-learning-goals/

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/success-in-language-learning/

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As you can see from these pages, in order to successfully set your own language-learning goals,
you need to know what you already know and what you plan to work on further. That is why
this assignment asks you to find your own errors and look for similarities/differences between
Japanese and your own language.

This is a pair assessment. You will receive the same mark as your partner. You should
cooperate with your partner to transcribe the recorded role play. When you submit, please
acknowledge that you both have contributed to the assignment and are happy to receive the
same mark as your partner by signing the cover page (see the last page of this document).

Only one of the paired students should submit your work to LMS Turnitin. You must clearly
include your Student ID and full name on the coversheet.

Length: Transcription and correction of role play + 500 words (750 words for a group of 3)

Note: Transcription and correction of role play is not included in 500 words. + or – 10% of
word limit is allowed.

Objectives: By doing this task, you will show that you can:

⚫ Reflect on your own performance to identify possible errors in vocabulary,

pronunciation and grammatical structure of the sentences which you produced in
your role play;

⚫ Identify cultural differences that may be present between communication in

Japanese and your first language; and,

⚫ Set own goals for future learning.

Note: You may want to use these three points as headings in your project.

Assessment details and due dates:

Cultural Research Project (Weight: 15%; Due Date: 15 June, 2020)

Criteria: /15
• Transcription of role play (2)
• Correction of errors in the transcript (5)
• Intercultural comparison – depth, originality, analysis, range of features covered (5)
• Demonstration of reflective processes which contributes to heightened language
awareness (3) – see “Objectives” above

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JAPN10001 Japanese 1
Assessment Coversheet
Please sign this sheet and attach to your project submission via LMS.

Student 1 name & student number:

Student 2 name & student number:

Student 3 name & student number:

Seminar number:
S2 -
Seminar tutor:

Assessment title & word count:

Cultural Discovery Project, words (not including transcript)

Plagiarism & collusion

Plagiarism is the presentation by a student of an assignment which has in fact been copied in whole
or in part from another student’s work, or from any other source (e.g., published books or
periodicals), without due acknowledgement in the text.
Collusion is the presentation by a student of an assignment as his or her own which is in fact the
result in whole or in part of unauthorised collaboration with another person or persons. Collusion
applies in group work situation, too, if one member of the group does not contribute to the work
of the group but submits the group’s work as their own.

Consequences of plagiarism and collusion

1. In any case in which a student has been involved in plagiarism or collusion, this shall be
reported to the Director, and may be reported to the Arts Faculty and recorded on the
student’s academic file.
2. In any case in which a student has been involved in plagiarism or collusion in an assessable
task, the marks awarded for that task may be zero and no substitution of an alternative
task will normally be permitted.
3. In any case in which a student has been involved in plagiarism or collusion a second time,
the matter may be referred to the Student Discipline Committee.

We declare that this assignment is our own work and does not involve plagiarism and
collusion. Both / all of us have contributed to this assignment and agree that we will receive
the same mark.

Student 1 signature …………………………………………………………………….. Date: ………………………….

Student 2 signature …………………………………………………………………….. Date: ………………………….

Student 3 signature …………………………………………………………………….. Date: ………………………….

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