Finnish for Professionals 1 (B1) (5 ECTS)

Location and time

14.3.-16.5.
Virtual teaching in Zoom:
https://metropolia.zoom.us/j/65111784673, passcode: AT1
- On Tuesdays at 15.30-18.00, except 21.3. and 28.3.
- On Thursdays 16.3., 30.3., 4.5. and 11.5. at 15.30-17.00.
- On Monday 15.5. at 15.30-17.00.

Small group work meetings agreed separately.

Materials

Teacher's material on Moodle.

Exam schedules

Tuesday 16 May 2023

Evaluation methods and criteria

Continuous assessment (written and oral assignments, participation to classes) and exam.

Student workload

The student's amount of work 5 credits = 135 h
Virtual teaching 36 h, small group working 10 h, homework and independent studying 89 h.

Teaching methods

Virtual teaching in Zoom, small group work and independent studying in Moodle learning environment.

Further information

This Finnish as a second language course is open to all Metropolia degree students and also students in Metropolia Open University of Applied Sciences. If you have a similar course offered by your degree, the recommendation is to primarily take that course.

Good studying skills and a lot of independent work required: reading and writing texts and studying grammar and vocabulary. Book time for independent studying on your calendar at least 5 h/week.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

- The students’ skills are sufficient for writing comprehensible and partly detailed texts. He/she is familiar with the linguistic means for writing clear and coherent text.
- The student identifies principles of different levels of formality in communication in different text types and takes them into account in his/her texts.
- The student is able to read texts on general work and field-related topics. He/she identifies the main points in a text. The student is able to communicate information and express his/her thoughts and views also in oral conversations.
- The student receives feedback and makes an effort to apply it in his/her oral and written communication.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

- The student is able to use relatively diverse sentence structures and linguistic means to write a text. He/she has a relatively extensive vocabulary on his/her own field and work related topics.
- The student is able to compose clear, quite detailed texts and oral presentations related to work and/or field-specific topics taking into account the requirements of different levels of formality in communication.
- The student understands some pages long texts related to his/her own field. He/she is able to find the main points in a text and identifies the purpose of the writer and the text. The student is able to take part in discussions related to his/her field and communicate information and views related to it quite precisely.
- The student is able to assess his/her language skills and set development goals.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

- The student has a good command of basic grammatical structures and quite an extensive professional vocabulary.
- The student is able to compose clear, coherent and quite detailed texts and presentations related to his/her field and work in general taking into account the correct level of formality in a situation.
- The student understands a wide range of texts related to his/her field. He/she is able to summarise the main points of the texts and describe, analyse and compare their contents. The student is able to communicate in a clear manner and compose well-structured texts. He/she expresses himself/herself relatively efficiently and in detail also in oral conversations.
- The student is willing and able to develop his/her language skills in a goal-oriented manner.

Further information

This Finnish as a second language course is open to all Metropolia degree students and also students in Metropolia Open University of Applied Sciences. If you have a similar course offered by your degree, the recommendation is to primarily take that course.

Good studying skills and a lot of independent work required: reading and writing texts and studying grammar and vocabulary. Book time for independent studying on your calendar at least 5 h/week.