Language Learning Centre
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Language Learning Centre
The Language Learning Centre (in Māori: Te Pūtahi Reo) is a hub for students of languages at Victoria University of Wellington. Located on the university's Kelburn campus in Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, it offers facilities and self-study resources for learning over 70 languages including the country's official languages English, Māori and New Zealand Sign Language.[1] It emphasizes independent learning.
Facilities
Occupying the whole of the von Zedlitz building, the Centre comprises language laboratories, themed group study rooms, a computer suite as well as a self-access library that includes graded readers, films, self-study courses, textbooks and board games for all ten languages taught at Victoria (English, Māori, New Zealand Sign Language, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Samoan and Spanish) as well as dozens of others. Recognising a lack of language learning resources for many Pacific languages it worked with local native speakers to launch an online platform for languages such as Māori, Samoan and Cook Islands Māori.[2][3][4]
Language Buddy Programme
The Centre runs a Tandem Language Learning programme which allows students to work with a native speaker of their target language improving their conversation skills as well as learn about their counterpart's culture.[5] The Language Buddy Programme is particularly popular among students of Chinese, English and Japanese.
History
The first language laboratory was established at 30 Kelburn Parade in 1967 by the then French Department.[6] In 1989 the university's English Language Institute's Self Access Centre became a key part of its English Proficiency Programme (EPP), this later became known as the Language Learning Centre (LLC) and expanded to cater for students of other languages taught at Victoria as well as non-taught languages. [7]
References
Language Learning Centre
- ^ "Languages we support│Ngā reo tautokotia". Language Learning Centre. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ "Old Samoan songs and stories made available online". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ "Cook Islands digital free online resource". Ministry for Pacific Peoples. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ "Rays of Sound from across the Pacific". Education Gazette Tukutuku Kо̄rero. New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ "Language buddies│Hoa reo". Language Learning Centre. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ McCallum, Janet (1967). "New language laboratory". Salient. No. vol. 30, no. 3. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
{{cite news}}:|issue=has extra text (help) - ^ Cotterall, Sara; Reinders, Hayo. "Fortress or Bridge? Learners' Perceptions and Practice in Self Access Language Learning" (PDF). Unitec Research Bank. Retrieved 24 May 2018.