AP Japanese Language and Culture case studies
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AP Japanese Language and Culture is a College Board Advanced Placement course and exam that assesses Japanese communication and cultural understanding at an intermediate college level-typically the third or fourth semester of college Japanese. It is intended for students with substantial prior study, often in their fourth year of high-school Japanese; there are no prerequisites, and native or heritage speakers may follow a different pathway. The AP Japanese Language and Culture case studies are 5 cases and about 2,287 words.
1The Four-Minute Ceiling: What to Cut When Content Outruns the Clock
Yuki has four minutes to deliver a presentational speaking task on 地域おこし協力隊 (regional revitalization volunteers) in an advanced Japanese class. Her slides contain a bar chart of population decline in three prefectures (about 12 seconds), a definition of the program (20 seconds), a profile of one volunteer she interviewed (70 seconds), a 40-second personal reaction, and a closing recommendation.
501 words, about 3 min2Four Panels, One Ambiguous Face: Narrating Without Notes
Students must narrate a four-panel story aloud for roughly two minutes, in the past tense, with no notes. Panel 1: a high-school student with a backpack runs along a platform toward a train that has already arrived.
464 words, about 2 min3Fifteen Minutes to Answer a Teacher's Two Requests
Kenji, a third-year student, opens an email sent at 21:40 on Tuesday by his Japanese teacher, 田中先生. She asks two things: whether he can submit his revised 作文 by Thursday 17:00 instead of Friday, because she must forward the class entries to a contest, and whether he can help run the スピーチ大会 rehearsal on Saturday morning.
409 words, about 2 min4The Announcement That Corrects Itself
A ninety-second campus announcement plays once. The office states that the 説明会 for the exchange program, originally 火曜日・4限 in room 302, moves to 木曜日・5限; the sign-up sheet closes 水曜日正午; students who have already registered need not register again but must bring a 成績証明書.
448 words, about 2 min5Three Texts on a Notice Board and Ninety Minutes of Overlap
A student wants to volunteer and also compete in the speech contest. Three texts are on the board.
465 words, about 2 min