Course catalogue

For proficiency level B2, post-secondary school revision. The course introduces the content, structure and assessment criteria of the Finnish as a Second Language examination. The course includes listening comprehension, reading comprehension and writing exercises. The course also includes practice of key and challenging language structures. The course is entirely online in the Moodle learning environment. Learning is mainly self-study, but help and guidance is available from the teacher via email and telephone. Please select the courses you wish to take from the enrolment form.

The course covers the main literary genres, modes of expression and concepts of analysis, empirical and analytical writing and discussion based on literature, imagery and cultural specificity of language, ambiguity and language play, narrative and narrativity in fiction, non-fiction and other texts, such as theatre plays, films, games or other media texts, and a complete work of fiction or non-fiction, read independently or together. Please select the courses you wish to take from the registration form.

S206 Writing 1: writing as a process: selecting and conceptualising a topic and material, defining a topic and choosing a point of view; structuring, editing and finalising; giving and receiving feedback, sharing texts and peer review skills, coherence at different levels of the text, e.g. overall text structure, paragraphs, sentences, word order, and mastery of linguistic structures specific to the subject matter, e.g. infinitive structures, conjunctions, referential relations. S207 Interaction 2: listening and listening strategies and skills, observation of interactional situations, individual linguistic repertoire, variations in language use and language, linguistic devices and rhetoric of speech and presentation skills: speech construction, targeting, illustrative presentation. Select the courses you wish to take from the registration form.

Course content: linguistic and audiovisual means of argumentation, modes of argumentation and rhetorical devices, oral and written argumentation, source criticism, information acquisition and management, copyright, vocabulary and structures of argumentative language: generic expressions, modality and affect, choice of linguistic devices, text type and style and a socially significant or topical work. Select the courses you wish to take from the enrolment form.