XSUX1001 My Finnish (5 cr)

Study level:
Other studies
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
Finnish
Responsible organisation:
Centre for Multilingual Academic Communication
Curriculum periods:
2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028

Description

Course description

The aim is to practice everyday situations and skills and make use of affordances offered by the Finnish environment in language learning.

Main contents of the course

  • routine everyday situations
  • the role of the environment in language learning
  • language learning and compensation strategies in the early stages of language learning 

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student is expected to 
  • be able to search for and select relevant information from written texts 
  • find some main points and keywords in routine situations 
  • be able to introduce themselves and briefly discuss their interests and plans 
  • cope with routine, recurring situations in their own everyday life 
  • recognize and make use of language learning affordances offered by the environment 
  • overcome the limits of their language skills by using compensatory strategies
  • regognize their own learning strategies and multilingual resources.

Additional information

Languages of teaching: Finnish and English 

Description of prerequisites

No previous studies in Finnish

Study materials

You will get the course material from the teacher.

Completion methods

Method 1

Evaluation criteria:
Active participation in teaching and completion of learning tasks as instructed is requested to pass the study unit.
Select all marked parts
Parts of the completion methods
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Participation in teaching (5 cr)

Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
Finnish

Teaching