XYHX006 Multilingual Interaction. Use Your Languages (4 cr)

Course description

This course fosters competencies needed in a multilingual and international environment. In various communicative tasks, the languages of communication are selected based on the group's common language proficiency profile. During the course, each participant uses their entire linguistic repertoire and multicultural skills.

Main contents

The course consists of multilingual oral and written assignments, where the student uses their linguistic and cultural competencies in interactive group simulations and individual assignments. Students will test and evaluate their linguistic competence profiles through various multilingual and multicultural tasks.

On completion of the course, the student is expected to

• become aware of cultural impact on the interpretation of information and communication
• identify one's own personal learning needs
• be able to participate in multilingual communication using effectively one’s linguistic repertoire, for example, switching smoothly from one language to another, as well as mediating between the interlocutors who are unable to understand each other
• analyze one's communication from a cultural perspective.

Optional course aimed at the enhancement of multilingual and intercultural communication competence for all students, including the exchange students.

In addition to mother tongue, the knowledge (even partial) of two other languages.