THE LANGUAGE CENTRE
The Language Centre was established in 2001.
The mission of the Language Centre is to respond to changing educational and commercial environments and to enhance the University’s reputation as the major provider of high quality education and training in the country.
The objectives of the Language Centre:
- To provide effective language proficiency and communication skills to students throughout the university;
- To provide effective foreign language instruction for students and staff of the university, as well as to the larger community in Brunei;
- To carry out research in the area of language teaching and learning and other related areas;
- To offer professional consultation, and expert services such as language teaching, editorial and translations.
The Language Centre is the hub for students and the wider Brunei Society for the learning of Borneo, Southeast Asian and other international languages.
The Centre organizes and streamlines all language and communication modules offered by UBD (particularly those for academic, professional and other specialized purposes).
The Centre also helps orchestrate student international activities including the Discovery Year. Besides that, the Language Centre staff are regularly consulted as examiners and advisors, both in government agencies and schools.
The main staple of the Language Centre is in the teaching of the Compulsory Breadth English module. The Centre also offers Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced modules in:
- Malay (for Non-Malay speakers)
- Arabic
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Korean
- Mandarin
- Spanish
- Filipino
- Thai
- Borneo languages (Brunei Malay, Belait, Iban, Dusun, Tutong)
