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Want to learn about language, culture and experience life in Japan, whilst learning Japanese?

Undertaking this exciting Japanese & Intercultural Communication course provides insights into different sociocultural language practices, providing you with specialist communication skills you could use to work in Japan or in an international professional context.

Using a communicative Japanese teaching style in your first year, you can start your studies as a beginner or with previous Japanese language experience.

You’ll enrich your language learning with an exploration of Japanese cultures, communities and societies through the medium of Japanese. You will experience this for yourself when you spend your third year in Japan. By the time you graduate you will be able to use Japanese to have conversations, give presentations, join in discussions, write coherently and communicate effectively for a range of purposes.

Alongside your Japanese studying you will discover and discuss a range of specialist languages and linguistics themes. Study how we convey meaning, how language varies according to speaker and situation, the position of English in the multilingual world and social, political and ideological issues in language and education. There are a wide array of modules which you may choose from, whether that is Forensic Linguistics or Speech and Language Pathology.

You will also get the opportunity to complete an internationally-recognised teaching qualification which is included in the programme’s tuition fees, subject to interview. The Certificate in English Language Teaching to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA) is awarded by Cambridge Assessment English, part of the University of Cambridge. This four-week intensive course is delivered on our campus at York St John University, so you can graduate with both a BA (Hons) Degree, providing you with the invaluable skills and qualifications to teach English globally.