Study Guide

Teaching methods

The aim is to help the foreign student to work in Finland and to tell about her work and duties. The students will learn to discuss and communicate with people at work. They will increase the awareness of Finnish culture and celebration. The students will reach the language level A2.2 at professional context and will be able to survive better at work in Finnish.

After the course the student is able to:
- tell about his/her working environment and duties in Finnish
- discuss in person and to communicate via email/other channels with people at work or studies: to ask, to advise and suggest things
- know the suitable communication style in different situations in Finnish culture
- understand and produce simple texts
- use ordinary professional vocabulary
- reach the language level A2.2 in the professional context in writing, reading, listening and speaking.

Grammar in the level A2, e.g:
- time tenses,
- plural
- comparing adjectives
- rare word types.

Vocabulary and phrases e.g. about
- Finnish celebration
- education, professional equipment, environment and duties
- shopping.

Evaluation is based on the final exam points:
50% = grade 1
60% = grade 2
70% = grade 3
80% = grade 4
90% = grade 5.

Alternative implementation methods

Full RPL possible according to e.g. YKI2 result.

Student workload

The course requires 81 hours of work.
Voluntary campus lectures : 24 h + preparation 12 h
Final Exam: 4 h + preparation 8 h
Obligatory Moodle tasks: 33 h

Qualifications

One of these courses completed or RPL: - Using Finnish Everyday A2.1 (in Savonia)

Materials

Suomen mestari 2, chapters 5-8
Material in Moodle

Further information

This course is held in the autumn in the second academic year.

The student has completed all first-year Finnish language courses OR
has demonstrated sufficient language skills, for example, by completed tests.

The course grade does not affect the granting of the scholarship.