Developing Advanced Asian Language Skills
UndergraduateUNE-LANG3052025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 16 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025,
- 23 June 2025
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Developing Advanced Asian Language Skills
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- apply and demonstrate advanced level language skills to interpret texts in the target language across a range of genres and contexts;
- demonstrate advanced communicative competence through the ability to effectively convey knowledge and ideas in the target language across a broad range of contexts and genres;
- demonstrate specialist critical language skills and strategies to generate solutions to communicative challenges in the target language; and
- apply and demonstrate extended knowledge of the cultural/social/historical/literary issues discussed in the target language.
- Topics will be available to enrolled students in the subjects Learning Management System site approximately one week prior to the commencement of the teaching period.
This subject enables you to advance your second language proficiency in Chinese, Indonesian, or Japanese through a singular or holistic focus on the four macro language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
You will develop these receptive and productive skills through practical tasks and critical engagement with authentic material in the target language across a range of genres, while drawing links to the sociocultural context in which the language is embedded. These tasks will not only enhance communicative competence, but also knowledge of the broader sociocultural context.
To ensure the topic you enrol in is appropriate for your Program of Study, you must apply to the unit coordinator for permission to enrol at least three weeks prior to the commencement of the relevant trimester.
2025 topics
- Trimester 1
- Japanese:
- Written Japanese
- There is no Chinese or Indonesian topic available in LANG305 in Trimester 1.
- Trimester 2
- Japanese:
- Japanese Through Contemporary Culture
- There is no Chinese or Indonesian topic available in LANG305 in Trimester 2.
- Trimester 1
- Assessment 1: Japanese Discipline: Language Comprehension. 2500 words (equivalent). Relates to Learning Outcomes 1-4 (50%)
- Assessment 2: Japanese Discipline: Language Comprehension. 2500 words (equivalent). Relates to Learning Outcomes 1-4 (50%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- UNE-MDL-DIP-2025 - Diploma in Modern Languages
Others
Candidature in the Diploma in Modern Languages.
This is a repeatable unit. However, topics are not repeatable and the unit cannot be undertaken more than once in any one teaching period.
To enrol in this unit, students must have completed: CHIN202 or INDN202 or JAPN202 or equivalent. Enrolment is also subject to unit permission of the unit coordinator. Students must apply to the unit coordinator for permission to enrol at least three weeks prior to the commencement of the relevant Trimester.
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Headphones or speakers (required to listen to lectures and other media). Headset, including microphone (highly recommended). Webcam (may be required for participation in virtual classrooms and/or media presentations).
- Software requirements - It is essential for students to have reliable internet access in order to participate in and complete your units, regardless of whether they contain an on campus attendance or intensive school component. For additional information please visit UNE Hardware Requirements: https://www.une.edu.au/current-students/support/it-services/hardware
- Other requirements -
Textbook requirements:
Textbook information is not available until approximately 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the Teaching period.
Students are expected to purchase prescribed material.
Textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.
Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateUNE-MDL-DIP