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V. Melléklet
Mellékletek 249 The University will offer education which, irrespective of the field concerned, will make provision for the needs of internationalisation. Graduates will be able to serve successfully in the international labour market and in multicultural working environments and will be able to develop their language skills purposefully. Promotion of language and communication skills is an integral element in all degree programmes. It is not possible to make a distinction between the language and communication skills and the substance of individual degree programmes; this is the reason why the teaching of language and communication skills will be linked up with the process of students’ academic socialisation and development of expertise from the very beginning of studies. New learning environments will be exploited to develop flexible models of training and education in language and communication skills which will meet the requirements of the advancing progression of studies and expectations of needs in the future labour market. The impact of the new degree and examinations system on different levels of education will be taken into account in the planning of language and communication courses. Advanced language and communication skills involve both academic skills and various professional discourse skills. In addition to language and communication skills, students will also be made aware and informed about the meaning of language, language use, and communication, ways in which language is embedded in culture, language learning, and their own strengths and weaknesses as well as future developments in this field. Students will be made aware of the importance of a good command of the mother tongue for the acquisition and production of knowledge and for personal growth and development. In addition to the courses relating to the mother tongue, they will be expected to give evidence of their mother tongue competence in communicative tasks of various kinds throughout their study careers at the University. The University seeks to expand the foreign language competence of the students in terms of the idea of plurilingualism expressed in the Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment as developed by the Council of Europe. Since English is not enough to meet the needs of foreign language competence for academically trained Finns, the University will make it possible for students to expand their foreign language skills in other languages. Language degree programmes and teacher education The training and education of language experts will be developed in the Department of Languages jointly by different language subjects. The Language Centre, the Centre for Applied Language Studies and, as far as the pedagogical studies of language teacher trainees are concerned, the Teacher Education Department also take part in the planning and development of the programmes. The planning of the programmes of language subjects will be founded on the common scientific and research basis of the subjects and on the principles of plurilingualism expressed by the Council of Europe. Transparent aims and objectives will be spelled out for language proficiency courses.
