Study Guide

Objectives

This course is for native Finnish speakers only.

After successful completion of the course student understands the importance of communication skills especially in working life and are able to evaluate one’s communicational capability and wants to develop one’s Finnish language and communication skills as a part of own professional development. Student can give and receive feedback and can utilize received feedback. Student understands the meaning of principles of appropriate professional communication e.g. obeying the timetables. Student knows the essential text types belonging to one’s own branch and their norms and can act in objective-oriented way in professional situations communicating as an expert in a structured, understandable and convincing way using appropriate argumentation. Student can gain and use information concerning their own branch in a critical point of view and can write their thesis reports using given guidelines: structure, references, summarizing, visual demonstration, style, correctness. Student acts in professional communication situations responsible way obeying given norms and can take into consideration a receiver, a situation and demands of own field.

Content

Guidelines of reporting: structure, references, summarizing, visual demonstration, style; Familiarizing with thesises of own field; Bullet; Documents for job search; Instructions; e-mails; Features in language of administration; Exercises of grammatical correctness.

Prerequisites

Starting level: High school Swedish syllabus or equivalent level European Framework of Reference skill level.  
Take the Swedish entry level test and, if necessary, complete the preparatory studies before the course begins. 

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

(Level B1.1) Student   
- is able to communicate simply about his/her own professional skills (e.g. job application)  
- is able to tell about his own professional field in a concise manner   
- handles mainly the most important predictable interaction situations and customer contacts in their own field in a comprehensible manner   
- writes somewhat intelligibly   
- uses the basic vocabulary of the field in such a way that the essential message is conveyed   
- uses simple grammatical basic structures   
- finds the information they are looking for in texts that deal with familiar topics   

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

(Level B1.2) Student  
- is able to communicate clearly in a way appropriate to the situation from his/her own professional expertise (e.g. job application)  
- can tell about his own professional field quite well  
- handles everyday interaction situations and customer contacts in their own field fairly well  
-mostly writes well.  
- uses the basic vocabulary of the field in such a way that the key message is conveyed   
- uses basic grammatical structures mostly correctly  
- understands the main points and most details of the professional text they read 

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

(Taitotaso B2.2-C1) Opiskelija  
- osaa viestiä sujuvasti tilanteeseen sopivalla tavalla omasta ammattialan osaamisestaan (esim. työhakemus) 
- osa kertoa omasta instrumentistaan monipuolisesti ja sujuvasti  
- hoitaa luontevasti verkostoituen oman alan monipuolisia vuorovaikutustilanteita ja asiakaskontakteja  
- kirjoittaa sujuvasti 
- käyttää alansa perussanastoa niin, että viesti välittyy selkeästi  
- käyttää kieliopin perusrakenteita lähes virheettömästi 
- ymmärtää sekä pääasiat että yksityiskohdat ammatillisesta tekstistä ja pystyy soveltamaan lukemaansa  

Further information

The course is for Native Finnish speakers only. No alternative form of completion. Sufficient skills in Finnish.