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SEEF2001 Finnish Level 2a: Comprehension

SEEF2002 Finnish Level 2b: Production

UCL Credits: 30

Total Learning Hours: 300

ECTS: 15

Level: Intermediate

Course Unit: 0.5 + 0.5

All Year

Module Coordinator: Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi

Taught By: Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi

To find out more about this module, please contact the Module Coordinator.

Weekly Contact Hours:  4 hours per week

Prerequisites:

Open to students who have successfully completed Finnish Level 1 or who can demonstrate equivalent competence

Compulsory Module for: Finnish and East European Studies, Russian and Finnish, Russian with Finnish, Modern Languages combined degrees of which Finnish is a component

Summative Assessment

Finnish Language Level 2A: 45 minute aural examination (20%); 3 hour written examination (80%).

Finnish Language Level 2B: 20 minute oral examination (20%); 3 hour written examination (80%).

Formative Coursework

Progress is carefully monitored, in particular in the early stages of the course, through a number of formative assessment tasks (reading and translating, writing and delivering short presentations in class) and homework exercises.

Module Outline

This is a course for students who have successfully completed Finnish Language Level 1, or who can demonstrate equivalent competence in Finnish. The course consists of two components, comprehension and production, each of which has the value of 0.5 of a course-unit. Both components are taught in conjunction.

EXPECTED OUTCOMES

By the end of the course students should be able:

· to understand a wide range of authentic spoken and written Finnish from predictable topic areas; to extract required information and record it accurately and coherently in English

· to manipulate spoken and written Finnish with appropriate and accurate use of lexis and grammatical structures in a variety of contexts and registers; to speak with confidence and accuracy appropriate to this level about many aspects of life and culture in Finland and societies where Finnish is spoken

· to demonstrate understanding of translation by discussing problems of specific translations from and into Finnish; to successfully translate a range of texts from and into Finnish

· to demonstrate knowledge and active use of more complex grammatical structures and a wide range of vocabulary in Finnish.

Indicative Texts

Course materials produced by the teacher will be provided.

Core learning materials:

Gehring, Sonja & Heinzmann, Sanni (2014) Suomen mestari 2. Helsinki: Finn Lectura.

Gehring, Sonja, Heinzmann, Sanni, Päivärinne, Sari & Udd, Taija (2013) Suomen mestari 3. Helsinki: Finn Lectura.

Karlsson, Fred (2015) Finnish: An Essential Grammar. London: Routledge.

Please note: This outline is accurate at the time of publication. Minor amendments may be made prior to the start of the academic year.