Curricula

Objectives

You will develop language learning strategies and lifelong as well as outside of the classroom learning skills. In addition, you will develop skills to participate in communication situations in daily life and in the workplace. You will write short texts, e.g. a job application. You will develop your reading strategies and understand simple texts.

Content

You will develop
- your skill to participate in communication situations in daily life and the workplace
- your language learning strategies
- your reading strategies
- active language learning also outside the classroom

You will study
- Writing short texts, e.g. job application
- Understanding simple texts
- Using compensation strategies to be understood
- Finding media texts that interest you

Time and location

At Dynamo campus Wednesdays 16.30-18.30

Teaching methods

Lectures, excercises / learning assignments

International connections

The study group is international and the content learned is compared with one’s own language and culture.

Student workload

5 cr:
Lectures 25–30 h
Assignments and homework 20–25 h
Independent learning 70–75 h
Exams 10 h
Total 135 h

Further information for students

Continuous evaluation, self-evaluation

The assessment is based on learning objectives, quality and criteria.

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

You manage routine situations for working life and everyday encounters. You communicate about familiar subjects. You can write understandable basic texts for working life with a dictionary. You find media texts about topics that interest you, and you understand the main points. You understand speech that has been slowed down a bit and can ask if you do not understand.

Prerequisites

Successfully completed Finnish 3 at Jamk or CEFR level A2.1
(https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/sites/default/files/cefr-en.pdf)

Further information

- Non-native Finnish speakers
- Available for Jamk Open UAS students
- This course cannot be studified