FYI
Andrew Jameson
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371 (+44 1524 32371)
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From: David Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
To: CALICO-L <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Web-based lang placement?
Date: 20 February 1999 18:00
Hi, Anne! You wrote:
>>Dear CALICO-L friends, >>Can't remember which conference, possibly last
year's CALICO, someone from ?Michigan demo'd a web-based language placement
test for Spanish, French, and German. The example shown was for German.
Would like to locate this program which was not being published per se but
which the person was willing to share. Anyone remember who this was?
Anyone aware of any other web-based placement tests? Thanks!<<
>I didn't get to CALICO, but do know of one colleague in Minnesota who has
been using a web-based placement test in German (and perhaps also in some
other languages). His name is Dan Soneson, and his e-mail address is
<[log in to unmask]> -- however, he left this week for a spring-term
overseas program in Vienna, and I don't know whether or not he has e-mail
access from there. He has said that he'd be willing to share that info,
and you may be able to get something by just going to Macalester College's
Web Site and looking around. I think they are at http://www.macalester.edu
-- give it a try. I too am interested in checking out as many of these
sorts of programs (for German) as I can find. Could you post your results
to the entire list, once you have them? Thanks!<
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Multi-Media Learning Center,
Northwestern University, claim to have an online foreign language placement
test which is "the first of its kind known to exist." Go to
http://placement-test.mmlc.nwu.edu/
and you can take any of the Foreign Language Placement Tests in French,
German or Spanish online and check your results.
I found this with Alta Vista using "language placement test" as a keyword
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