DIALANG

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Description

DIALANG is a free adaptive web-based diagnostic language assessment system that reports learners' proficiency in relation to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and provides feedback and advice for progression.

Components

• DIALANG web-based diagnostic assessment tool: DIALANG is a free, adaptive diagnostic web-based assessment tool that "provides test-takers with scores related to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)" and "provides feedback and advice on how to move towards the next CEFR level". The article uses its structure section as a diagnostic tool to identify learners' grammatical problems (modals and prepositions) as target structures for DA sessions. The article characterizes it as a non-dynamic test whose feedback is not attuned to learners' ZPD. (Ebadi (2016))

Claims

• Learners placed at the same CEFR level by DIALANG differ in their ZPDs, which DIALANG's non-dynamic feedback does not capture [-W]

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Key Sources

• Ebadi, S. (2016). Exploring DIALANG's Diagnostic Feedback in Online L2 Dynamic Assessment. Teaching English with Technology, 16(1), 41-58. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1135925

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Field	Value
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title	DIALANG
description	DIALANG is a free adaptive web-based diagnostic language assessment system that reports learners' proficiency in relation to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and provides feedback and advice for progression.
status	review
moved_from	element/dialang-diagnostic-tool
product_kind	assessment
generated	by process:sweep-kinds on 2026-10-10
trust	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources	1 — ebadi-2016

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