Finnish for Teaching

The course introduces participants to Finnish language of teaching and communication in different academic fields. During the course, participants

- familiarise with teaching a university course in Finnish

- reflect on their own strengths as teachers in Finnish

- compile vocabulary and central concepts in Finnish in their own field of expertise

- produce a poster covering an issue in one’s own field and introduce the poster to

other participants.

The topics and communicative situations in the course: emails, meetings and negotiations, pedagogical language (giving instructions, guiding students, teaching dialogue, concepts of digital pedagogy) and information retrieval in an article of one’s own field. The participants can also influence the content themselves.