Study Guide

Objective

The students can communicate in Swedish both orally and in writing in working life situations. They are able to discuss field related topics in Swedish. They are able to develop their expertise using literature as well as other sources in Swedish.

Students:
- can tell about themselves, their education and work experience
- can write a cv and a job application and can handle job interviews
- can write work relevant messages (e.g. e-mails) and manages work related telephone conversations, company presentations and other spoken communication situations
- can use polite phrases
- knows the basic terminology of the field

Content

Telling about oneself and one´s studies
Job application, cv, job interview
Polite phrases and small talk
Basic written messages and spoken work life communication (e.g. company presentations, e-mails)
texts on field specific topics

Materials

Material for the course on Moodle.
The material will be provided by the teacher.

Also used: Pietilä: Kontakt - Teknisk svenska. Edita.

Teaching methods

contact lessons, spoken and written exercises, group and pair work
independent learning

Exam schedules

Written exam in virtual Exam-room at the end of the course. Oral exam face-to-face.

A failed exam can be retaken twice.

Student workload

81 h

Further information

Compulsory attendance in lessons. Minimum attendance 80 %.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

There are lots of major errors in the student's written expression and problems with the fluency of text. Their text is simple, partly incoherent and unintelligible.

There are lots of mistakes in the student's oral expression and the pronunciation differs from that of the target language. The main message is conveyed despite the deficiencies, but disturbing influence of other languages. The student masters the most basic vocabulary and key grammatical structures in a limited way.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

There are some minor errors in the student's written expression, but the message is still conveyed without problems. Their text is fluent and consistent, mistakes do not lead to misunderstandings.

There are some mispronunciations and grammatical errors in the student's oral expression, but they do not disturb the conveying of the message. Fairly good, fluent basic language skills, presented relatively spontaneously. Hesitation slows down the student's speech.

The student masters the basic vocabulary and field-specific vocabulary quite well. The student uses key grammatical structures quite faultlessly.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student's written expression is faultless, very fluent, and the student pays attention to stylistic matters required by professional-life communication situations. They also use complex syntactic structures in their text.

There are no mistakes in oral expression. Overall, their speech is spontaneous, fluent narration, which the listener can easily follow. The student reacts in an adequate way in interactive situations.
The student masters a large vocabulary and uses grammatical structures fluently and in a varied way.

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam, oral exam, exercises and attendance at contact lessons.
Students have to attend lessons, pass the exams and exercises.

Qualifications

B1 skill level

Further information

80 % attendance requidred