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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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.

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.

Eliza – written by Professor José Ignacio Latorre (Director, Centre for Quantum Technologies) – sought to explore how relationships between man and robot could unravel, and with that, the central premise of the production: Is artificial intelligence (AI) capable of love?

The ever-popular NUS Open House hit new heights this year, attracting over 8.61 million visitors – a 26.2 per cent increase from the 6.83 million visitors that attended last year’s online Open House.

NUS is offering a number of new programmes to prepare graduates for the future.

NUS is offering a number of new programmes to prepare graduates for the future.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards!

The NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is proud to announce the 37 winners of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for their work in AY2020‐21, 16 of which have also been nominated for the Annual Teaching Excellence Award(ATEA) and Annual Digital Education Award (ADEA).