Study Guide

Objective

The aim is to activate your Finnish, to enhance your fluency in everyday situations, and to encourage you to use the language outside the classroom.

Having completed the course you will
1) understand most of what is said in everyday situations
2) be able rather clearly to describe your surroundings, your studies, and daily events
3) be able to present and justify your opinions
4) recognize some features of colloquial language
5) have the opportunity to achieve the level B1.1 of the six-level CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

Content

Exercises on speaking Finnish and understanding spoken Finnish. Presentations and conversation in small groups on given topics. The teacher and the students jointly agree on the studying method.

Further information

A degree student attending the Lapland University of Applied Sciences can register free of charge for LUC studies offered by the University of Lapland,
if the studies can be linked to their own degree. Enrollment takes place through the Applicant’s Desktop of the University of Lapland: https://hakeutuminen-lay.peppi4.lapit.csc.fi/web/hakijan-tyopoyta/.
From the left hand menu, first select "Study selection" and then "LUC studies YO”, and you will see the entire offering. Choose the study unit in question and register.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass/fail

Qualifications

The course is available to those who have completed the Finnish for Foreigners 1–4 courses and to those with corresponding skills (language skill level A2.1–A2.2).

Further information

Teaching of Finnish as a second and as a foreign language.
Timing: Autumn term.