Study Guide

Objective

Students are more confident in using Finnish. After the course, they are able to tell and write about their daily life by using simple expressions and to communicate in everyday situations, such as talking about their daily life at work and running errands in a bank, post office and hotel.

The target level of the course is A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Content

Students are able to communicate in everyday situations, e.g.:

- telling about daily life, holiday and travelling
- telling about work and professions
- running errands in bank, post office and hotel
- grammar e.g., the most common noun types, object, more about the consonant gradation and the use of the local cases

Materials

Online material

Teaching methods

Contact lessons, independent studies, written and spoken assignments

Exam schedules

The exam times will be announced during the course.

Completion alternatives

Demonstration of competencies (on SeAMK demonstration days)

Student workload

81h, incl. lectures 26h

Further information

Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) Level A1

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student knows some vocabulary learnt during the course. He can use simple sentences, but mistakes can impede comprehension. He can communicate in some everyday situations when helped. He understands slow and clearly articulated speech to some extent, and he recognizes the topic of written texts and understands some words and expressions in them. The student is able to write short and simple texts, but mistakes impede comprehension. Other languages strongly influence the pronunciation.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student knows most of the vocabulary learnt during the course. He can use simple sentences making a few mistakes. He manages independently in most of the everyday situations, mistakes do not impede comprehension. He understands most of the normal speed speech and the content of written texts. He is able to write mainly understandable texts while still making some mistakes. The pronunciation is mainly understandable.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student knows the vocabulary learnt during the course. He can use simple sentences making hardly any mistakes. He manages independently and fluently in everyday situations. He understands normal speed speech and the content of written texts, and he can write understandable texts, which may contain minor mistakes. The pronunciation is close to that of a native speaker.

Assessment methods and criteria

- active participation in lessons (min. 50% to pass the course & min. 80% to get the highest grade)
- written and spoken assignments
- exam (min. 50 % of the points to pass the exam)

Qualifications

Finnish 1 and Finnish 2