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Language Learning Centre - Wikipedia

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The Language Learning Centre (in Māori: Te Pūtahi Reo) was a self access language learning centre that offered resources and facilities for those learning languages at Victoria University of Wellington.^[1]

Facilities

Once occupying the whole of the von Zedlitz building, the Centre comprised 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] The language laboratories within the Centre were equipped for teaching New Zealand Sign Language in addition to spoken languages.^[5]

Language Buddy Programme

The Centre ran 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.^[6]

History

The first language laboratory was established at 30 Kelburn Parade in 1967 by the then French Department.^[7] In 1974 a language laboratory component was formally introduced into the French programme in order to expose students to authentic materials.^[8] In 1989 the university's English Language Institute began placing a greater importance on independent language learning through what was then called the Self Access Centre, a key facility for 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.^[9]

References

^ "Homepage". Language Learning Centre. Retrieved 25 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.
^ "Interview with Edith Paillat, Language Technology Specialist – Victoria University of Wellington" (PDF). Sans Software and Network Solutions. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ "Language buddies│Hoa reo". Language Learning Centre. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
^ McCallum, Janet (1967). "New language laboratory". Salient. Vol. 30, no. 3. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Barrowman, Rachel. "Victoria University of Wellington 1899-1999 - A history". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Cotterall, Sara; Reinders, Hayo (2001). "Fortress or Bridge? Learners' Perceptions and Practice in Self Access Language Learning" (PDF). Tesolanz (8): 23–38. Retrieved 23 May 2018.

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