Arabic-L:PEDA:New Automated Test of Spoken Arabic from Pearson

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Date: 03 Mar 2009
From:Dora Johnson <dJohnson at cal.org>
Subject:New Automated Test of Spoken Arabic from Pearson

This came via the Educational Linguistics listserve.

Dora

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[mailto:edling-bounces at lists.sis.utsa.edu] On Behalf Of Francis Hult
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 3:23 PM
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Subject: [Edling] Pearson Unveils New Automated Test of Spoken Arabic

PR Web

Pearson Unveils New Automated Test of Spoken Arabic

Pearson Unveils New Automated Test of Spoken Arabic, Developed for U.S.
Defense Language Institute

The Arabic language is spoken by more than 300 million people worldwide.
As Middle Eastern nations play an increasingly important role in our
global economy, Arabic speakers are in high demand in international
corporations and organizations such as the United Nations, the World
Bank and foreign aid agencies. Today Pearson unveiled a new automated
test of spoken Arabic that will allow organizations to accurately and
efficiently evaluate the language skills of candidates for employment or
participants in language training programs.

The automated test is the result of a Pearson development project
supported in part by the U.S. Defense Language Institute (DLI) Foreign
Language Center in Monterey, Calif. The new language assessment, the
Versant(tm) Arabic Test, is now commercially available for government
agencies, corporations or universities to use for evaluating spoken
Arabic language skills. DLI turned to Pearson because of its proven
expertise in the development of reliable and technologically advanced
automated language assessments.

Full text:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2179034.htm

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