Single course
English for Working Life
Content
The central contents of the course are:
• telling about your studies and looking for employment
• oral and written communication in working life, for example meetings, small talk, customer service, telephoning and emailing, and expressing your own opinion
• producing formal text, such as reports, instructions or summaries
• field-specific terminology
• presentations, workshops, group discussions
Objectives
In the course English for Working Life you will learn to operate in English in situations related to international working life.
You will also increase your self-confidence in speaking and writing in professional contexts. In addition, you will learn to follow the developments in your field locally and globally.
After taking the course, you will have learned to write texts related to your future profession in an appropriate style. You will also have gained confidence in spoken interaction and acquired vocabulary that will benefit you later in your career.
Communication and Team-working: You are able to function in a national and international context and you are able to cooperate with specialists in your own field as well as with other groups of professionals.
Implementation methods
This is an online course, and you study independently in Moodle. Online courses are recommended for students who have strong English skills, and who are able to use English in their everyday lives. You need basic computing skills, web camera and microphone. The teaching language of this course is English.
You do written and oral learning assignments in Moodle. The oral assignments are videos. There is an oral and written exam in the course. The written exam is in Exam studio. The oral exam is a recorded group discussion in Zoom/Teams.
The topics of the course are as follows:
- studies and job search
- communication in working life, for example, e-mails, opinions
- professional writing
- field-specific terminology
- presentations, group discussions
Additional information
For more information about tuition fees and registration: [email protected]
For more information about the course content: Piia Anttonen ([email protected])
Check the course schedule using the course code at https://lukkarit.peppi.jamk.fi