Language Labs at Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University
Language Labs
SMU’s foreign language provision has gradually expanded since its first language course offering in the academic year 2001-02. It now offers Basic one-semester courses in Mandarin, Malay, Spanish, Japanese, and most recently, French.
Cultural and language proficiency helps our students benefit from the occupational and personal opportunities open to them in the global market, and our Language Labs provide some of the necessary resources to help our graduates to enhance their language learning experience.
The Language Labs serve a dual purpose - they act as classrooms for foreign language courses and also double as a self-access language centre to supplement regular weekly classroom instruction.
More specifically, the aims of the language labs are to:
Serve as both a self-access learning centre and also as regular language classrooms
Serve as forums where students can interact with best-of-the-class TAs and invited native speakers of Japanese, Spanish, etc (e.g. foreign exchange students), using them as conversation partners
Provide students with resources to improve foreign language proficiency (particularly speaking and listening)
Serve as a forum in which students can interact in their language of study or engage in area studies of the respective languages (e.g. BSMs)
Enable language instructors to remain at the cutting edge of language pedagogy