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Åbo Akademi University 2014/2015
LANGUAGE COURSES
versity.
Prerequisites: No previous knowledge required.
Participants min/max: 10/20
Contact hours: In class (56 h), independent work (74 h) Ex-
amination participation rights: Active participation (75 %)
and successful completion of assignments
Swedish as a Foreign Language, level 2
5 credits
Offered: Autumn 2014, Spring 2015
Registration: Through MinPlan:
Aim(s): The course gives the students the possibility to further
improve their language abilities after participating in "Swedish
as a foreign language, Level 1". Participants learn to under-
stand Swedish in various everyday situations and partake in
short informal discussions and obtain a functional everyday
working vocabulary, as well as being able to write somewhat
longer cohesive texts. The course participants learn to read
and understand longer, more demanding texts.
Contents: The course is a direct continuation of Swedish as a
Foreign Language, Level 1. Participants are further acquainted
with everyday life and celebrations in Sweden and Finland;
practise talking about housing, jobs and feelings. Some tradi-
tions and festivals are discussed.
Participants write messages, and short stories about famil-
iar situations and events. Grammar points are revised and
extended to include comparative and superlative adjectives,
indirect speech, more verb tenses, more forms of adjectives
and nouns, and word order in subordinate clauses. All the
course work is practiced in written and spoken communica-
tion exercises.
Course literature: Althén et al. Mål 2, 4th edition.
Course books can be purchased at the office of the Centre for
Language and Communication
Level: A1-A2 according to the Common European Frame-
work of References for Language Target audience: Primarily
students at Åbo Akademi University.
Prerequisites: Completed Swedish as a foreign language, Level
1 with grade 2 or higher or equivalent knowledge.
Participants min/max: 10/20
Contact hours: In class (56h), independent work (74h) Ex-
amination participation rights: Active participation (75 %)
and successful completion of assignments
Swedish as a Foreign Language, level 3
5 credits
Offered: Autumn 2014
Registration: Through MinPlan:
Aim(s): The course gives the students the possibility of further
improving and extending their language skills after having
completed Swedish 2 as a foreign language. The students
learn to write syntactically more demanding texts, and are
also offered the opportunity to practise their oral skills in the
formof discussions about current topics or personal subjects.
Students are also expected to be able to use authentic mate-
rial in Swedish, such as newspaper articles and similar texts.
Contents: Students write texts based on a given title or in the
formof a review. The students are also given the opportunity
to practise oral language skills through class discussions, and
discussions in small groups. The teaching language is Swedish.
Participants learn passive, participle, and other grammatical
structures according to the wishes or needs of the group.
Level: A2-B1 according to the Common European Framework
of References for Language Target audience: Primarily stu-
dents at Åbo Akademi University.
Prerequisites: Completed Swedish as a foreign language, Level
2 with grade 2 or higher or equivalent knowledge.
Participants min/max: 8/20
Contact hours: In class (56h), independent work (74h) Ex-
amination participation rights: Active participation (75%) and
successful completion of assignments
Finnish as a Foreign Language, introduction
course
2 credits
Offered: Autumn 2014, period 1 and spring 2015, period 3.
The course is the first half of Finnish as a Foreign Language,
level 1 (see below).
Registration: Through MinPlan:
Aim(s): To give students basic knowledge of the Finnish
language. They learn to understand and cope with differ-
ent everyday situations in Finnish. The course concentrates
on practical language use; grammar is discussed to a lesser
extent.
Contents: During the lectures, students learn useful every-
day phrases in different situations and the main features of
pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary are discussed. The
language is practised mainly in communication in various
pair and small groupwork but also in different writing assign-
ments. The course also includes simple reading and listening
comprehensions.
Level: A1 according to the Common European Framework of
References for Language.
Target audience: Students at Åbo Akademi University.
Prerequisites: No previous knowledge required.
Participants min/max: 10/20
Course literature: Gehring-Heinzmann, Suomen mestari 1.
Suomen kielen oppikirja aikuisille. 2011. FINN LECTURA.
Format: In class (28h), independent work (24h) Examination
participation rights: Active participation (75%) and successful
completion of assignments
Finnish as a Foreign Language, level 1
5 credits
Offered: Autumn 2014, Spring 2015
Registration: Through MinPlan:
Aim(s): To give students basic knowledge of the Finnish
language in order to be able to understand some spoken
and written Finnish and to become familiar with the basics
of Finnish grammar.
Contents: During the lectures, basic grammar will be taught
and various tasks will be practised both in pairs and as group
work. Pronunciation exercises, listening comprehension exer-
cises, communication exercises and small number of writing
tasks are included.
Level: A1 according to the Common European Framework of
References for Language.
Target audience: Students at Åbo Akademi University.
Prerequisites: No previous knowledge required.
Participants min/max: 10/20
Course literature: Gehring-Heinzmann, Suomen mestari 1.
Suomen kielen oppikirja aikuisille. 2011. FINN LECTURA.
Format: In class (56h), independent work (74h) Examination
participation rights: Active participation (75%) and successful
completion of assignments
