Hi, Amy,
Your post re community colleges use of Duolingo scores for admission to your ESOL program caught my attention. I teach in the academic ESL department and the university developed its own writing assessment so my college is not using Duolingo, but I personally have been using Duolingo to study Chinese and have recently become aware that a number of schools, like yours, are using Duolingo assessments of language proficiency. I'd be very interested in learning more about the process in selecting Duolingo and any insights that you might be able to share.
I will also follow this thread to see if other schools respond :)
Best regards,
Cynthia Wiseman
Professor, Academic Literacy & Linguistics
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Cynthia S Wiseman
Professor
BMCC CUNY
United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 24-09-2021 03:42 PM
From: Amy Tate
Subject: Duolingo for Admissions
Hello!
Our community college system is trying to determine the appropriate Duolingo score for students to be accepted into our ESOL program. It's easy to find information for scores for admission for regular college courses, but not for ESOL programs. If your institution accepts Duolingo scores for ESOL, what is the minimum score you accept? And how would you characterize your lowest level class that students can take? (We don't take true beginners in our program, so a score of zero is not appropriate for us. For a point of reference, an Accuplacer 46 places students in Level 1 of our program.)
Thanks so much,
Amy Tate
ESOL Professor
Lone Star College Montgomery
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Amy Tate
ESOL Professor
Lone Star College Montgomery
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