Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Exam
ACE ID:
DLI-0286
Organization:
Defense Language Institute
Location:
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Length:
3 hours
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Upper-Division Baccalaureate 4 Foreign Language
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 4 Foreign Language
The DLPT credit recommendations reflect a shift to create alignment with college and university foreign language degree programs and elective credits.
Description

Objective:

The Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) is designed to assess the target language proficiency of native speakers of English who have learned a foreign language as a second language and speakers of other languages with very strong English skills. The DLPT measures proficiency as defined by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Skill Level Descriptions.The DLPT is designed to measure proficiency in the target language regardless of how it has been acquired; test content is not tied to any particular language-training program. The passages included in the test are sampled from authentic materials and real-life sources such as signs, newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, the Internet, etc. The passages cover a broad range of content areas, including social, cultural, political, economic, geographic, scientific, and military topics.The reading and listening comprehension tests are based on a wide variety of realistic written and spoken materials. The content is sampled from authentic sources such as signs, newspapers, radio broadcasts, etc. The test include multiple choice questions with four options in English. The listening and reading sections have 100 items each. Test administration time is approximately 75 minutes for the listening section.The relevant languages include: Albanian; Arabic-Modern Standard; Chinese-Mandarin; Czech; Dari; French; German; Greek; Hebrew; Hindi; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Kurdish-Kurmanji; Norwegian; Pashto; Persian-Farsi; Polish; Portuguese Brazilian; Portuguese European; Romanian; Russian; Serbian-Croatian; Sorani; Spanish; Tagalog; Thai; Turkish; Ukrainian; Urdu; Uzbek; Vietnamese.The following relevant languages have been approved as of 10/1/2018: Indonesian; Azerbaijani; Hatian-Creole; Punjabi-Western; Somali; and Yoruba.

Skills Measured:

The description of expected ability, the learner is able to read fluently and accurately all styles and forms of the language pertinent to professional needs; relate inferences in the text to real-world knowledge and understand almost all socio-linguistic and cultural references; read and understand the intent of writers' employment of nuance and subtlety 'read beyond the lines', that is, understand the full ramifications of texts as they are situated in the wider cultural, political, or social environment; follow unpredictable turns of thought readily, for example, in editorials, conjectural, and literary texts in any subject matter area directed to the general reader.The skills to be assessed include the ability to understand the full ramifications of the text as it is situated in a wider context, i.e., read 'beyond the lines', and draw appropriate conclusions / inferences; understand major points supporting the author's argumentations; understand subtle author-intended implications; understand the nuances / subtleties employed by the author; understand the significance of the socio-linguistic or cultural references in the text; understand vocabulary / idiomatic expressions in context and/or the significance of the author's choice of such vocabulary / expressions; follow turns of thought in the text that are unexpected; detect the author's attitude / tone / points of view.
Instruction & Assessment
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