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Show Students earn Credits in Languages Henrieville, received 18 hours credit; Charles Grant Sherratt, Cedar City, and Hugh Behling, Ferron, Emery County, both received 13 hours credit. "We were very pleased with these students' success and with the tests themselves," them-selves," Chidester said. The language credits can be used to help fill general education requirements or as lower division elective credits which can be applied to the graduation req j-.rements. Each of the BYU FLATS consists of three separate tests which can be administered ad-ministered individually or as a group. Tests include first-year first-year conversation and grammar, intermediate grammar and reading, and intermediate conversation. " The tests evaluate all language skills, including speaking, listening comprehension, com-prehension, writing, vocabulary and reading comprehension, grammatical gram-matical correctness, and understanding of cultural patterns. SUSC tests in Spanish, German and French were developed earlier on a similar basis, Chidester said. In addition to the tests currently offered at SUSC, testing samples are available in Cakchiquel, Samoan, Swedish, Tahitian and Tongan. Any questions about language testing at SUSC including cost, can be directed to Professor Chidester at 586-4411, extension ex-tension 408, or to Mr. Piacitelli at 586-4411, extension ex-tension 336. Southern Utah State College students can earn up to 25 hours of lower division credit in Japanese, Aymara (South American Indian), Farsi (Persian), Indonesian, Thai, Dutch and Serbo-Croation Serbo-Croation (southeastern European) languages. College credit through special testing is also available in Spanish, German Ger-man and French, the three languages taught at SUSC. "For many years, up to 25 hours of lower division credit has been available in the languages taught on campus. Credit is now available in seven other languages, and more tests in the so-called 'exotic' languages will be make available in the near future," Jim Piacitelli, SUSC counseling and testing coordinator, said. The new language . proficiency tests are being offered cooperatively through SUSC and the Language and Intercultural Research Center at Brigham Young University. "Students can be tested on the BYU campus in some 20 foreign languages through the Foreign Language Achievement Series (FLATS), and many larger colleges and universities take advantage of the program," Piacitelli explained. ex-plained. "Due to the distance involved, in-volved, many students are unable to travel to Provo to take the tests. Because of this, a special 'Long-Distance-Administration' program has been established for schools such as SUSC," he said. The language proficiency tests are perpared at BYU and administered at the SUSC Student Resources Center. The tests are scored at BYU and sent back to SUSC. A determination of credit is make by the SUSC Language Department. Students seeking special Credit in Spanish, German and French are still tested through the SUSC Language Department. "Language testing programs make provisions to have the language proficiency of students recognized and to award corresponding college credit for thier language skills, much the same way as the National College Level Examination Program (CLEP) does for general knowledge," Piacitelli said. "It is ideal for people who have studied a foreign language in the military, as a missionary, in a classroom class-room situation, or from contact with another culture," he said. "The amount of credit each student receives will depend on his or her testing scores and on the amount of credit available for each specific language test," E. Leon Chidester, chairman of the SUSC Language Department, said. Three SUSC students and former LDS missionaries took tests in Japanese in November. Kerry Rose, |