Student Services
Assessments
Formative Assessments can be done in the DLL flex area or Canvas course site a year-round. Summative Assessment “Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview (SOPI) exit assessment” is administered in DLL area every quarter. Spring quarter, the assessment is administered over 10 languages and approximately 700 students come through the Lab.
Exit Assessment
Exit AssessmentResources
Quizlet: Online Flash card activities in various languages shared by many users.
Various material links in Center for Open Educational Resource and Language Learning (COERLL), University of Texas at Austin - Arabic, Spanish, German, French, Classics, Persian, Italian, Portuguese…etc
Five Colleges LangMedia: self-study for commonly taught languages as well as less commonly taught languages (e.g. Turkish, Swahili..etc)
BBC Languages: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Portuguese, Other
Mixxer: Language Exchange Online via Skype- Search for a language partner or language exchange. Then talk to them using Skype. Created by Dickinson College.
WordReference.com - Online Dictionary for English to German, French, Italian, Spanish...etc
Phonetics – The Sounds of Spoken Language (American English, German, Spanish) by University of Iowa.
Chinese Take in by LAITS (Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services), University of Texas at Austin
New York Times Chinese Edition
Francsais interactif by LAITS (Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services), University of Texas at Austin
France-Amérique - America's largest French-language magazine
Visualizing Japanese Grammardeveloped by Shoko Hamano at George Washington University
Genki resources: supplement materials for Japanese textbook Genki
Intermediate Japanese (IJ) resources: supplement materials for Japanese textbook IJ