Affärsvenska / Business Swedish (3cr)

Evaluation scale

1-5

Objective

Students will have spoken and written competence in using Swedish in ordinary and most common field-related situations. They will possess skills and business-related terminology in obtaining and utilizing information. They know how to develop their language skills to meet the demands of working life.
Students are able
- to talk about themselves, their education and job experience in Swedish, for example in job-seeking situations
- to communicate on the telephone and/or via e-mail
- to talk about business-related jobs and work environments
- to guide and serve customers face-to-face in a customer-oriented way
- to describe companies and their operations and/or the company's products and production
- to search and use field-related information in Swedish

Content

- telling about oneself and one's educational background
- describing one's work environment, conditions and duties
- describing a company and its operations
- small talk
- telephone conversations and electronic communication
- meetings, guiding others, giving opinions and arguing in favour of those opinions
- customer-service situations
- presentation of products
- the student gets to know the culture and working life of Swedish-speaking areas (visits, guest lecturers, study trips)

Materials

Materials in Moodle.

Teaching methods

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

Exam schedules

Monitored exam after the course in virtual exam-room. Two retakes for failed exam. Timetable for retakes are announced during the course.

Student workload

- contactlessons 29h
- independent studies 53h

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students use simple structures and limited vocabulary, and mistakes disturb understanding. They understand slow and clear speech and quite easy field-related texts. They manage predictable working life situations when assisted. Pronunciation is influenced by other languages. Level B1 in Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students have a satisfactory command of grammatical structures and professional vocabulary. They manage fairly well in the most common predictable field-related situations. Understandable pronunciation. Level B1/B2 in Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students have an excellent command of grammatical structures and professional vocabulary. They are active and can interact independently and fluently in written and oral field-related situations. Pronunciation close to native speaker. Level B2 in Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Qualifications

The student masters the most essential grammar of Swedish.
Previous Swedish language studies are needed, for example from secondary education.

Further information

Students should attend 80 % of the contact lessons. The minimum attendance 50 %.