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The Foreign Languages Experiment & Teaching Center

The foreign languages experiment & teaching center is affiliated to School of Foreign Languages, founded in 1979 under the name of Department of Foreign Languages. In 2000, School of Foreign Languages was restructured from Department of Foreign Languages, College English Teaching Department and other foreign language teaching affiliations in Northwest University. The school of foreign language has founded the foreign language experiment & teaching center through integration of the experiment & teaching resources of the above units, including language laboratories, reference rooms, English FM broadcasting stations and satellite ground stations.

Currently the language experiment & teaching center consists of 21 laboratories for various purposes including two laboratories for simultaneous interpretation, two network laboratories for autonomous learning, three digital language laboratories, three imported simulation language laboratories and one large-scale English autonomous learning platform with four laboratories. Besides, it possesses two foreign language FM broadcasting stations and one satellite ground station. With over 800 computers in an area of around 2200 square meters, the experiment & teaching center accommodates a total of over 9000 students with 250,000 hours every year.

With the premise of guarantying the theoretical teaching system and the core of establishing experiment & teaching curriculum, the experiment & teaching center strives to push forward an orderly and scientific development by means of deducting related hypotheses and verifying them in a scientific way, propelling empirical research, helping to improve syllabus and compiling teaching materials, exploring ways in training teaching procedures and teaching evaluation system in experiment & teaching.

The foreign language experiment & teaching center is committed to the following teaching tasks: foreign language majors, MTI, and public foreign language listening at all levels and teaching reform programs. Besides, the center is responsible for the popularization and application of multimedia technologies as well as listening playback and recording in CET4 & CET6, postgraduate English examination and professional foreign language examinations.