A Fast Track to Professional English (3 op)

Osaamistavoitteet (Opintojakso)

Opiskelija
-pystyy viestimään englannin kielellä moniammatillisessa työyhteisössä oman ammattialan tyypillisissä työtehtävissä
-ymmärtää ja osaa hyödyntää omaan ammattialaan liittyviä tekstejä
-pystyy edelleen kehittämään oman erikoisalansa kielitaitoa eri oppimisvälineitä hyväksi käyttäen
-ymmärtää viestinnän merkityksen osana ammattitaitoa ja osaa ohjata erilaisia asiakkaita/potilaita/kollegoita oman ammattialan keskeisissä tilanteissa

Sisältö (Opintojakso)

Keskeinen oman erikoisalan sanasto ja viestintä
Alakohtaiset tekstit
Kielen eri rekisterit

Esitietovaatimukset (Opintojakso)

Lukion englannin oppimäärän A-kielen taso tai vastaava taso (terveysala ja muut alat)
Suoritettu Working English for Engineers tai vastaavat tiedot (tekniikan ala)

Aika ja paikka

January - February 2021.

Tenttien ja uusintatenttien ajankohdat

Instead of an exam, various written and oral assignments are supposed to be worked on and submitted.

Arviointimenetelmät ja arvioinnin perusteet

Instead of an exam, various written and oral assignments are supposed to be worked on and submitted.

Assessment:
Video assignment Pass (Compulsory)

Sustainable development essay 1-5 (25%)
Video chat with a student colleague & reporting it 1-5 (25%)
Oral presentation (video) 1-5 (40%)
Other activities (collaborative, informal) (10%)
Learning diary Pass (Compulsory)

Arviointiasteikko

0-5

Opiskelumuodot ja opetusmenetelmät

Independent and collaborative studying on tuniMoodle platform. Weekly instructions from the teacher. Individual feedback on certain assignments.


Students
-can communicate within multi-professional work communities in their own special field
-understand and can make use of articles related to their own professional field
-can develop language skills of their own professional field utilizing a variety of learning tools
-undestand the significance of communication as part of professional skills
-can instruct various clients/patients in field-specific situations

Oppimateriaalit

TuniMoodle

Arviointikriteerit - hylätty (0) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

Reasons for failing the course:
Written / Oral assignment is failed if
- the student has considerable problems in linguistic structures and grammar
- one's nursing terminology is very limited, or almost non-existent
- one fails to convey the relevant message across to a listener or a reader.
Negligence or delays in submitting the assignments.

Arviointikriteerit - tyydyttävä (1-2) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

The student

-can interact in a simple way provided the other person is prepared to repeat or rephrase things at a slower rate of speech and help formulate what is being said.

-can write memos, reports, summaries and other texts related to his/her field such as manuals.

-can understand texts in his/her field with some help e.g. dictionaries.

-can follow standard speech in everyday conversation provided he/she can ask for repetition.

-pronounces mostly comprehensibly.

-can express him/herself with somewhat clarity.

-uses basic grammatical structures

-has sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself so that essential message is understandable.

-can find and understand relevant information in texts on familiar matters.

Arviointikriteerit - hyvä (3-4) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

The student

-can give a presentation fairly effectively and fluently.

-can write memos, reports, summaries and other texts connected to his field such as instructions and manuals.

-can understand texts on subjects related to his/her field.

-can discuss and interact with some confidence.

-can understand interlocutors who use different accents if the topic is familiar.

-pronunciation is fairly intelligible even if a foreign accent is somewhat evident and occasional mispronunciations occur.

-can express him/herself fairly clearly and precisely in writing.

-shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control. If he/she makes mistakes he/she can correct him/herself if mistakes have led to misunderstanding.

-can understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.

Arviointikriteerit - kiitettävä (5) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

The student

-can give an effective and fluent presentation.

-can write clear, well-structured memos, reports, summaries as well as other texts on subjects related to his/her field such as instructions and manuals.

-can understand in detail texts related to his/her own area of specialty.

-can discuss fluently and spontaneously.

-can understand relatively effortlessly people who use different accents.

-has acquired a clear, natural pronunciation and intonation.

-can express him/herself with clarity and precision in writing.

-has a good grammatical control and accuracy. Occasional slips or non-systematic errors and minor flaws in sentence structure may still occur.

-has a good command of a broad lexical repertoire.

-can understand in detail a wide range of lengthy, complex texts.