COLLEGE CENTERS AND SERVICES
COLLEGE CENTERS AND SERVICES Center for Language Services Language Instruction
During the 2014-2015 academic year, the center taught beginning- and advanced- level classes in 39 different languages. During that year, CLS offered 141 different class sections. New languages to be added to the CLS FLang curriculum for the 2015-2016 academic year are Hiligaynon and Urdu. Language Certificate Program
On March 4, 2015, five years after the inception of the Language Certificate Program, the College of Humanities celebrated the issuance of the 1,000th BYU Language Certificate to Taylor Drennan. Thank you to all who participated in the celebration! For a full account of the event, go to http://humanities.byu. edu/1000-language-certificates/ Our beloved Michele Price has accepted a position with the Chinese Flagship. Her dedication was key to the success of the Language Certificate Program. A new Language Certificate coordinator is joining the Center. Please help us welcome Molly McCall to the Center for Language Studies.
Language Testing
Last calendar year, CLS supported college language assessment initiatives by providing a total of 1,231 OPIs and WPTs in 15 different languages. Tests were given to graduating language majors, students in study abroad programs, student interns, Language Certificate applicants, residents of the Foreign Language Houses, applicants to the SLaT MA program, participants in various research projects, and students in departments conducting curriculum reviews. Language
Total Majors Minors Other
Arabic 13 6 3 4 Chinese 67 45 20 2 French 109 55 29 25 German 85 68 12 5 Italian 26 14 8 4 Japanese 58 50 8 0 Korean 26 20 6 0 Portuguese 94 27 28 39 Russian
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Spanish
659 228 185 246
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Total BYU Language Certificates as of July 2015: 1,259!
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