DIALANG is an online diagnostic system designed to assess a person's proficiency in 14 European languages.
[1][2] Competences tested are reading, writing, listening, grammar and vocabulary, while speaking is excluded for technical reasons.
The current version of DIALANG provides tests in Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Irish, Icelandic, and Norwegian.
Yet, it is important to recognize that the tasks written and designed by DIALANG deal with issues that may not be appealing to young learners.
By simplifying the language of instruction, DIALANG could be made accessible to a wider range of users (Zhang & Thompson 2004).