XYHX006 Multilingual Interaction. Use Your Languages (4 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

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Use your languages and learn more about multilingual and intercultural communication!

Description

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.

Learning outcomes

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.

Description of prerequisites

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.

Completion methods

Method 1

Evaluation criteria:
Active participation and completion of assignments and learnerlogs.
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Parts of the completion methods
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Participation in teaching (4 cr)

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

Teaching