HUNGAROPORT

Educational and cultural Internet portal for foreigners learning Hungarian

Ágota Bausz <bausz@sztaki.hu>, János Csempesz <csjani@pele.ilab.sztaki.hu>

MTA SZTAKI

László Szabó <lszabo@itk.hu>

BNI Ltd.

The language teaching portal Hungaroport is for students who learn hungarian as a foreign language. The portal provides

ˇgeneral information to learn the Hungarian language (language schools, learning materials, useful links, important information, etc.),

ˇonline interactive test-system and

ˇvarious online interactive materials, and

ˇe-learning consultation and technical expertise.

The second language of the portal is English, and it contains complex search functions.

Hungaroport

•The primary goal of the portal is to join the dispersed user's group by originating a forum to language learners.

•Offers a flexible language teaching and cultural information system.

•Assist users in raising their social mobility and in amending quality of life. Simultaneously it is a costsaving solution, as well as education and orientation are free of location and time. The preparation is ensured in advance for those, who are travelling to Hungary or would like to live here.

The aim of online Hungarian test-system, which is based on a large database, is self-testing. The test-system contains exercise-basis indexed by grammatical categories and knowledge levels. By using this test-system users are able to define their knowledge level. In the system the definition of knowledge levels orientates to recommendations of the European Council, the ALTE system and ITK requirements. The users can use two testing procedures (adaptive and level-based) to determine their knowledge level.

The online courses help students with interactive exercises, indexed texts, multimedia elements, search functions and tests.

Hungaroport consists of beginner and advanced learning modules. The material modules comprise of 15 steps, the steps substitute lessons. The steps are teaching using interactive exercises, the student learns one grammar phenomenon in each step. Grammatical notes are joined to each step. Under the development phase we attempted to make useful new exercise types that suit interactive exercise solution (drag and drop, fill-in-the-blank, test, true-false, etc.)

The "Fülelő" Hungaroport module provides listening excercises for intermediate and higher intermediate students.

HUNGAROPORT, Educational and cultural Internet portal for foreigners learning Hungarian as a foreign language was developed by MTA SZTAKI and BNI Ltd. by sponsorship OM IKTA-2000 program.