Study Guide

Teaching methods

Learning methods
- Active collaboration with the tandem pair
- Teaching and sharing own language and culture to the tandem pair and the tandem group
- Visits to cultural events with the tandem pair
- Writing written and oral blogs with the tandem pair

Primary completion method
- 2 compulsory meetings together with the whole tandem group
- Tandem pairs work and meet according their own plan and schedule that they make in the beginning of the course.

Assessment
- Assignments to return to Moodle together with the tandem pair: Plan (to set up the schedule), 2 written blogs, 1 video blog, self-evaluation (individual work)
- To pass the course, all the course assignments must be done and returned in time.
- Evaluation scale: Pass/fail

Course schedule
- The tandem course starts on week 6 (2 hour orientation meeting) and end on week 16 (2 hour final meeting).

Student workload

Student's workload (3 credits = 80 hours of work)
- Meetings: 4 h
- Planning the schedule with the tandem pair: 2 h
- Working on chosen topics and teaching and learning the target language and culture: 60 h
- Writing the blogs (2): 6 h
- Making the video blog: 6 h
- Writing the self-evaluation: 2 h

Materials

No specific material used.

Further information

Learn Language and Culture in Tandem is a reciprocal language and culture course in which the students are paired with a native speaker of the target language to work on different learning tasks. The pairs don´t need to have the same level in tandem languages (e.g. one student can be a beginner and the other in advanced level). The pairs work independently, but the study process will be guided by a teacher.