Outstanding Educator Award

Assistant Professor CHAN Wai Meng

PhD (University of Kassel), MA, BA (University of Wurzburg)
Deputy Director, Centre for Language Studies

“ Teaching has been a fountain of youth for me as I continue to learn and enrich my own interest through interactions with my students. ”

• played a leading role in developing the curriculum at the Centre for Language Studies;
• led a team of German lecturers to create e-daf, a comprehensive virtual self-access centre for the learning of German as a Foreign Language;
• developed three successive curricula for German language modules at NUS;
• played a key role in changing the nature and scope of foreign language learning provision at NUS.

• sees the role of an educator as extending beyond the classroom;
• applies new technologies in foreign language learning;
• supports his teaching role with active research in process-oriented language learning, curriculum development and syllabus design, metacognition and learner autonomy.

• author, Metakognition und der DaF-Unterricht fur asiatische Lerner. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen . Munster & New York, Waxmann-Verlag, 2000;
• co-author, German Language Syllabus (with Teaching Guidelines) for Secondary 1- 4 . Singapore : Ministry of Education, 1997;
• co-author, German Language Syllabus (with Teaching Guidelines). "A" Level . Singapore : Ministry of Education, 1997;
• author and co-author of numerous articles in refereed journals, book chapters and conference papers in foreign language education;
• co-editor, Foreign Language Teaching in Asia and Beyond (expected to be published in 2006).

• editor, e- FLT, Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching;
• vice-President, Pacific CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) Association;
• member, International Association for Language Learning Technology;
• member, Euro CALL;
• member, Asia CALL;
• member, Singapore Association of Applied Linguistics.

• NUS Excellent Teachers 2003;
• NUS Excellent Teachers 2002;
• NUS Faculty and University Teaching Excellence Awards, 1997.