9:15 AM - 12:00 PM AP Japanese Language and Culture course is designed to be comparable to approximately 300 hours of college level classroom and prepare students for the AP exam in May. The course is almost exclusively conducted in Japanese and students are expected to participate in class activities in Japanese. Classroom interaction are focused around three modes of communication: interpersonal,interpretive, and presentational for meaningful purposes. The “5Cs” of the ACTFL World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities are integrated through a thematic content-based unit approach while students build up language competence.