Learning outcomes

After completing this course, students will
- understand general factual and scientific texts
- understand texts of their own field
- to some extent be able to produce factual texts
These skills will help students in their studies and later in following their own field and improving professional international communication.

Contents

During this course, students will
- read and analyse texts from different fields and become familiar with vocabularies that are universally scientific and essential to the subjects in question, and also with the meanings of prefixes and suffixes
- examine the structure of academic text and the functions of its parts, the clue words indicating the semantic relations of a text, and structures that are essential to understanding texts
- use the words in texts and vocabularies in active writing

Further information on prerequisites and recommendations

For students of Education

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Tutorials	42 h	0 h
Independent work	38 h	0 h

Teaching language

English, Finnish

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
Evaluation by written final exam and regular and active participation in exercises.

Recommended year of study

First year of studies

Study materials

Material distributed during the course must be paid for.

Further information

During the academic year, an optional test of written skills will be organised twice for students who already possess the language skills this course aims at. Those who pass the test will be exempted from the written skills course.

Belongs to following study modules