Professional EnglishLaajuus (3 ECTS)

Objective

The student develops his/her advanced communication and interaction skills in demanding professional settings. The student is able to produce professional written documents such as professional e-mails and reports and oral presentations. Moreover, he/she improves the usage of professional language as well as recognizes and knows how to use different registers.

Content

Intercultural communication
Formal and informal language and terminology
Curriculum Vitae
Job application
Professional e-mails
Written and oral patient reports
Oral presentation and giving feedback

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

In communication situations related to his/her field

The student trusts his/her communication skills to manage professional communication events using inquiries and relatively short speech acts.
The student understands the communication partner enough to be able to act and verbalize in accordance with the task in questio.n
The student expresses his/her thoughts simply, mainly coherently, and relatively understandably, even if there may be deficiencies in professional terminology and structural inaccuracies, which may interfere with full understanding.
The student draws up simple, formatted texts independently and extensive texts using linguistic aids.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

In communication situations related to their field the students

• trust their communication skills to manage in the professional context in line with the objectives set for the task
• exchange ideas as equal partners with independent language users
• take the initiative in professional discourse and can, to some degree, take into account participants’ cultural and language backgrounds and the demands of the context
• express themselves promptly in a clear and detailed manner
• use professional terminology to the point
• pronounce English clearly with matching stress and intonation
• produce texts for different purposes, where linguistic inaccuracy does not interfere with understanding

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

In communication situations related to their field the students

• trust their communications skills to allow them to take initiative in communication events following the discourse practice of the field
• interact clearly and fluently as equal partners with a proficient speaker
• take initiative also in demanding professional communications where participants’ cultural and language backgrounds need to be taken into account
• express themselves effectively and accurately
• use professional terminology to the point
• pronounce English clearly, with stress and rhythm matching the total message
• have the ability to produce several genres, which are clear, well structured, and effective