Study Guide

Objective

The aim of the course is to develop basic language skills in accordance with the European Framework of Reference to the skill level A2.
Students can cope rather well with everyday communication situations and are increasingly able to be initiative in a communication situation.

Content

After completing the course, the student
- knows how to exchange thoughts or information in familiar and everyday situations
- copes with short social situations and knows how to use the most common polite greetings and forms of addressing
- is able to make politely, for example, requests, invitations, suggestions and apologies
- understands the topic and core content of short, simple messages
(e.g., advertisements, brochures, menus, and schedules)
- is capable of simple reasoning supported by context
- is able to tell things that are related to everyday life and that are important to themselves, using simple phrases and concrete vocabulary (family, shopping, place of residence, workplace, etc.)
- is able to write short and simple notes and messages related to everyday needs
- masters an easily predictable basic vocabulary and many of the most important structures

Materials

Acquire the course book
Gerstler, Susanne; Aho, Hanna & Willberg, Hanna 2019. No niin! 1. Suomea aikuisille. Helsinki: Finn Lectura.
OR later version.

The book is also available as an e-book: https://finnlectura.fi/oppimateriaalit/no-niin-1-nakoisversio

You will find other course material on the learner´s platform.

Teaching methods

When you also use Finnish outside of class, your language skills will increase and strengthen. Activity in your doing of the weekly exercises will lead you to a powerful basement of Finnish.

Exam schedules

You can find the deadlines for the weekly assignments in itslearning. Assignments have to be completed during the course.

If you had no time to complete the tasks or your score did not exceed a grade, register for the next implementation.

International connections

Online meetings, working independently on itslearning platform, group work, pair work. Check out the Innopeda criteria in the learner´s platform.

When learning, Finnish is preferred as soon as possible to use learned sentences and phrases.

Completion alternatives

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Student workload

Reserve working time for
• online meetings 24 h
• online work 30 h
• learning assignments in itslearning, preparation of written and oral assignments 50 h
• independent work and review 20 h
• preparing your learning diary and scanning your skills 11 h

Content scheduling

After the course
- your pronunciation is understandable
- you will be able to understand short messages, simple speech and follow the discussion about your own life and family plans
- you can distinguish between topic changes in TV news
- you know how to start and end a short dialogue
- you will master basic vocabulary and many key structures (such as past forms and conjunctions).
- you will understand the main ideas of short texts and some details of a couple of paragraphs of text based on the context
- you are able to write short, simple messages, which can be personal letters, notes and e-mails related to everyday situations,
- you can use specific vocabulary related to basic needs, basic time formats and simple conjunctions (and,
but) connected parallel sentences.

Participation in the course requires at least A1 proficiency in Finnish.

The online meetings will be held on Thursdays as follows:

Further information

The platform itslearning
During the course will be used Finnish as much as possible, but also the L1:s of the group members and English will be invited to the discussions.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

The final grade from 0 to 5 is affected by the points obtained for the tasks. Only tasks returned on schedule will qualify for full points. If your assignments are not completed during the course, register for the next implementation.

Online meetings structure and guide your learning: you learn the basic structures of the language, the appropriate use of language and pronunciation.

You can find the assessment scale in the learner´s platform.

Qualifications

Participation in the course requires at least proficiency level A1 in Finnish.