English Communication Skills for Automotive Design EngineeringLaajuus (3 ECTS)

Objective

The student becomes confident in communicating in demanding interactions in a professional and communicative manner, considering the expectations of the community, client, language and organization culture.
The student is able to independently and proactively acquire information required in his/her profession from a variety of field-specific sources and understands the life-long-learning principle in developing one’s language skills.

Content

Field-specific Terminology
Effective Interaction Strategies in Demanding Work Situations such as Meeting and Negotiation Simulations and Technical Process Presentations.
Technical Reading Strategies. Independent Search for Information from Texts, Documents and Online Sources, Team Work and Portfolio.
Technical Writing and Written Documentation: Reports, Summaries.

Qualifications

The prerequisite for this course is a completed course in Professional English for Automotive Design Engineering

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
• understands the communication partner enough to be able to act and verbalize in accordance with the task in question
• 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
• draws up simple, formatted texts independently and extensive texts using linguistic help tools

Assessment criteria, good (3)

In communication situations related to his/her field the student

• trusts his/her communication skills to manage in the professional context in line with the objectives set for the task
• interacts professional content as an equal partner with an independent language user
• takes the initiative in professional discourse and can take into account participants’ cultural and language backgrounds to some degree and the demands of the context
• expresses him/herself promptly in clear and detailed manner
• uses professional terminology to the point
• pronounces English clearly with matching stress and intonation
• produces genres for different purposes, where linguistic inaccuracy does not interfere with understanding

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

In communication situations related to his/her field the student
• trusts his/her communications skills to allow him/her to take initiative in communication events following the discourse practice of the field
• interacts clearly and fluently as an equal partner with a proficient speaker
• takes initiative also in demanding professional communications where participants’ cultural and language backgrounds need to be taken into account
• expresses him/herself effectively and accurately
• uses professional terminology to the point
• pronounces English clearly, with stress and rhythm matching the total message
• has the ability to produce several genres, which are clear, well structured and effective