What LANGUAGES can I study?
Avant Assessments's STAMP 4s (four skills - Reading/Writing - Listening/Speaking) is available in many languages. At Wesleyan, we grant credit of 3, 6, 9 or 12 hours for reaching increasingly higher average benchmark scores from Novice-High through Intermediate-Mid in the following European languages with a romanized alphabet like English and overlapping vocabulary: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
Avant Assessments also is introducing STAMP for American Sign Language (ASL)*
*(two skills - receptive and productive)
Avant Assessments also is introducing STAMP for American Sign Language (ASL)*
*(two skills - receptive and productive)
We will also have mentoring, testing and certification available in several mostly non-Western languages, which mostly do not use a romanized alphabet. We can grant credit of 3, 6, 9 or 12 hours for reaching a lowered set of benchmark average scores from Novice-Mid through Novice-High. The languages available are:
Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew (modern), Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian. (others by request)
Where can I access online course content for these languages?
Click on the following websites where you will find links to the stories used in WLAN 100 and 200. The TARGET LANGUAGE SPECIFIC site below will become your primary GO-TO.
The primary default learning source will be Duolingo, (especially STORIES). Additionally, Spanish, French and German all use a 13-episode video series called "Extr@" that follows the lives of two young men and two young women in Barcelona, Paris and Berlin respectively. The video is inspired by the TV series "Friends" from the 1990s and 2000s. YouTube videos and other sources of level-appropriate content are also listed in the syllabus and students are invited to explore and find their own sources.
There are also "language basics" and "verbs" links within the language-specific sites below.