Work Placement and Language Internship 1: Social Services Work and Clients’ Everyday LifeLaajuus (5 cr)

Course unit code: SX00FX79

General information

Credits: 5 cr

Objective

The student

• is able to work according to a social pedagogical orientation
• is able to guide individuals and groups in their everyday life with appropriate means
• is able to interact with clients and act as a member of a work community
• is able to set goals and describe, evaluate and report own activities.

Language and language-awareness goals of the course in Finnish are specified for each student depending on their level of language competence.

A1: The students learn as observers the communication environment and the communication situations of the internship. They recognise the different communication roles of the professionals and communication goals in different situations. They increase their skills in interpreting oral communication situations based on extralingual cues (e.g. tone of voice, gestures, facial expressions, body language, length of speech lines, participants, communication environment, duration of the situation), and are able to pick up frequently repeated words (greetings, key words and phrases related to situations) from the speech flow, even if they do not always perceive the deeper meanings of situations. The students also participate in the discussion in Finnish in short, predictable, and routine situations (greetings, asking for how people are, introductions).

A2: The students become familiar with the communication environment and communication situations of the internship. They identify different communication roles and communication goals of the professionals in different situations. The students can interpret oral communication situations with the help of extralingual cues (e.g. tone of voice, gestures, body language, length of speech lines, the participants, communication environment, duration of the situation), and are able to pick up frequently repeated words from the speech flow (greetings, key words related to situations, introductions, explanations) and utilise them in their speech. The students take part in the conversation in Finnish in predictable and routine-like situations (greetings, asking for how one is, introductions, explaining, and describing)

B1–B2: The students become familiar with the communication environment and communication situations of the internship. They are able to act appropriately in various communication situations and participate actively and proactively in discussions at the workplace. The students are able to support the language learner in routine-like communication situations. They are also able to follow even more complex communication situations and act in them quite effortlessly, even if they would not participate in them as active communicators.

C1 – C2 (also native Finnish speakers): The students become familiar with the communication environment and communication situations of the internship. The students are able to act in different communication situations appropriately and as conscious linguistic participants utilising both plain language and the communication environment. The students participate actively and proactively in the workplace discussions and are able to independently support the language learner during the communication situations at work.

Content

Internship in the operational environments in social services. Language training supports the language learning of the students (at A1-B2 levels) and a language-conscious approach to work (at C1-C2 levels). At the A1 level, the students are instructed to pair up with the students with Finnish language skills for their internship. The students use a self-assessment tool to evaluate their own Finnish language skills before and after the internship as part of their language PSP.

Qualifications

The student must have completed the course Social Pedagogy in Social Work Environments 5 ECTS and the course Finnish 2 or have acquired equivalent skills.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Framework of assessment is attached in the curriculum's description.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed