Business English (5 ECTS)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

In communication situations related to their field the students
• trust their communication skills and manage professional communication situations by asking questions and speaking relatively briefly
• understand the communication partner enough to be able to interact in the professional task in question
• express their thoughts simply, mainly coherently, and relatively understandably, even if there may be deficiencies in professional terminology and structural inaccuracies, which may prevent full understanding
• draw up simple, standardised texts independently and more extensive texts using linguistic help tools.

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
• interact professional content as an equal partner with an independent language user
• take the initiative in professional discourse and can take into account participants’ cultural and language backgrounds to some degree and the demands of the context
• express themselves promptly in clear and detailed manner
• use professional terminology to the point
• pronounce English clearly with matching stress and intonation
• produce genres 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 communication skills to allow them to take initiative in professional communication situations in their field
• interact clearly and fluently as an equal partner with a proficient speaker
• take initiative also in demanding professional communication situations where participants’ cultural and language backgrounds need to be taken into account
• express themselves effectively and accurately
• use accurate professional terminology
• pronounce English clearly, with the correct emphasis and rhythm
• are able to produce clear, well structured and effective texts.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

In communication situations in their field the students
• trust their communication skills and manage professional communication situations by asking questions and speaking relatively briefly
• understand the communication partner enough to be able to interact in the professional task in question
• express their thoughts simply, mainly coherently, and relatively understandably, even if there may be deficiencies in professional terminology and structural inaccuracies, which may prevent full understanding
• draw up simple, standardised texts independently and more extensive texts using linguistic help tools.