Stiles Begnaud

French Proficiency Standards and Assessment Site

Faculty Mentor - Stephanie Gaillard

Overview

This project builds on the work of two previous fellows: Nuj Naguleswaran (2022) and Diana Nazari (2022). The objective is to create a website that combines documentation of American and French proficiency standards for language learning (ACTFL and CEFRL) and an assessment tool that gauges the user's knowledge level based on those standards. The finished site is able to assess users and provide them with resources to further their learning based on where they stand. Some improvements and bug fixes to the existing tools are also being made. 

The website consists of four main pages: the home page, the assessment page, the standards page, and the resources page, with various sub-pages included. The main/home page outlines the possible outcomes of studying a language in a university setting. This feature was largely created by Prof. Gaillard and replicated by me based on a pdf image. The assessment and standards pages are mostly derived from the past fellows's work. However, significant backend work was required to transfer the functionality of the assessment tool from streamlit to a google sheet implementation compatible with HTML/CSS/JS. Finally, the resources page takes a document of various French-language learning resources and organizes them into categories on the website.