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DIALANG

Project partners: 20 major European institutions, including Lancaster University

Funding body: The European Commission

This Project has developed diagnostic language tests in 14 European languages, delivered over the Internet. The test system is based on the Common European Framework and incorporates self-assessment and detailed feedback on performance, and advice on how to improve one's language proficiency. The 14 languages are Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Tests of reading, listening, writing, grammar and vocabulary are freely available at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/researchenterprise/dialang/about.

Charles Alderson was the Scientific Coordinator of the Project and further information can be viewed on the Project website. An article by Charles Alderson and Ari Huhta describing some of the results of the piloting on the tests is available in Language Testing, Vol 22 (3) (2005), and a much fuller description and discussion of diagnostic testing can be found in Alderson, J.C. (2005) Diagnosiing foreign language proficiency: the interface between learning and assessment. London: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-8503-0