Online Tools for Assessing Language Learning

Teaching Assistant Survival Society (TASS) meeting

Friday, December 5, 2014, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Moore Hall 151

Facilitator: Ruslan Suvorov (rsuvorov@hawaii.edu), Center for Language & Technology

This session will focus on the assessment of language learning. In particular, we will discuss some existing resources for language testing and will introduce the tools that you can use to create your own assessment.

I. Online resources for language assessment:

• • DIALANG (online language diagnosis system in 14 European languages): http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/researchenterprise/dialang/about

    • Web-based version of the test: http://dialangweb.lancaster.ac.uk/

  • Foreign Language Assessment Directory from the Center for Applied Linguistics (over 200 tests in 90 languages): http://www.cal.org/CALWebDB/FLAD/

II. Online tools for creating your own assessment:

• Hot Potatoes (freeware, supports six types of item formats): http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

  • Example: http://www.hotpot.uvic.ca/wintutor6/

• Quizlet (free basic, flashcards + tests): http://quizlet.com/

  • Example: http://quizlet.com/14019870/german-food-adjectives-flash-cards/

• Google Forms plus Flubaroo add-on to grade the responses: http://www.flubaroo.com/

  • • Example: http://tinyurl.com/kzamlqd 

• Poll Everywhere (free basic): http://www.polleverywhere.com/

  • Example: http://www.polleverywhere.com/ruslan

• Purpose Games (free): http://www.purposegames.com/.

  • • Examples: http://www.purposegames.com/game/colors-in-german-quiz and http://www.purposegames.com/game/house-spanish-vocabulary-quiz

• Rich Internet Applications from CLEAR (especially QuizBreak): http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/ria/index.php

• Quiz module in an LMS (e.g., Tests & Quizzes in Laulima)