Edwin Thumboo Prize 2022

The Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has awarded the Edwin Thumboo Prize 2022 to three pre-university students for their outstanding literary work. Named after one of Singapore’s most prominent poets and scholars, the Edwin Thumboo Prize, aims to promote excellence in the study of Literature at the pre-university level by recognising outstanding literary works by A-level and International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBDP) students of English Literature in Singapore. It is administered by the Department with support from the Ministry of Education (MOE). The Prize, established in 2019, is funded by generous donors, including patrons of the arts and former winners of the Angus Ross Prize. Winner Mr Nicholas Yong Yoong-Yao Raffles Institution $200 prize award Nicholas Yong Nicholas’s essay “Truth and Reality in Andrew Marvell’s Selected Poems and Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella compared how the two Renaissance poets explored the relationship between humanity’s two realities – earthly existence and aspiration towards a higher spiritual realm. In a video interview, he credits his parents, teachers from primary school to JC, and friends for playing a significant role in inculcating his love for reading and his passion …

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NUS CHS Open House 2022: Discover #Interdisciplinary Education!

Marking a cautiously calibrated return of the University to the normalcy of hosting large on-site events, this year’s CHS Open House is a two-day hybrid programme: 11 May on Zoom (and viewable on CHS’ Facebook page) and 14 May on several locations across the NUS Kent Ridge campus, specifically the areas around the Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS), and the Faculty of Science (FoS).

The Auditory English Lexicon Project: A multi-talker, multi-region psycholinguistic database of 10,170 spoken words and nonwords

In the late 1990s, there were concerns of a decline in Singapore’s standard of English. This was attributed to Singaporeans’ penchant of using Singlish in casual conversation, which is grammatically incorrect and not commonly understood among foreigners. To reverse this problem, the Speak Good English Movement was launched on 29 April 2000 to discourage the use of Singlish and encourage Singaporeans to adopt a universally correct form of English. ‘The Auditory English Lexicon Project: A multi-talker, multi-region psycholinguistic database of 10,170 spoken words and nonwords’ is a project by Associate Professor Winston Goh, Associate Professor Melvin Yap, and Ms Qian Wen Chee (all NUS Department of Psychology). In this psycholinguistic experiment, participants are required to indicate whether the audio word or non-word (pseudowords) that they are introduced to is a legitimate word or a non-word. From there, behavioural data on reaction times and error rates can be collected. Six tokens of each stimulus were recorded (in .wav format) using native speakers of American, British and Singapore English, with one from each gender. The audio was played out to participants to gather data on intelligibility norms and auditory lexical decision accuracies and latencies. Through the experiments, the team developed a database …

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#DiscoverFASS@CHS 2022 | Watch Masterclasses Here!

As part of the #DiscoverFASS@CHS campaign leading up to our Open House in May, we are holding in-person Masterclasses presented by three of our award-winning Faculty members this Saturday, 23 April 2022, and streaming them ‘live’ on our website—so NO ONE misses them.

Sixteen NUS Programmes in Global Top 10

These programmes include those from Arts and Social Sciences, Computer Science, Design and Engineering, and Science – demonstrating the University’s strengths across its different colleges, faculties and schools, according to the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject.