L2 Word Drag-and-Drop Quiz Java Applet.

The L2 Word Drag-and-Drop (WDD) Quiz applet is basically the regular WDD Quiz applet with support for foreign language characters (L2). It can display both English and a foreign language as follows:

• the question text can be in L2 characters or English letters
• the draggable text chunks and the partial answer can be either all in the L2 font or all in English.

Here are the values and names to use when prompted by the FrontPage 98 Applet dialog box:

• Applet Source: L2NewWDD.class

• Applet Base URL: http://www.seasite.niu.edu/java/L2NewWDD

• Applet Parameters:

• Name	Value
  quesfileloc	quiz.txt  (or whatever name you choose)
  language	Thai/Vietnamese/Khmer/Lao/Burmese

• Width: 600

• Height: 400

Note the new parameter "language" to indicate which language you want to use with L2 WDD.  The other parameters are the same as the regular WDD quiz.

The differences with the regular WDD quiz applet are:

1. You must use the "language" parameter (e.g. name=language value=Thai).
2. The format of the WDD quiz file is the same as regular WDD quiz with one exception:
3. question font specifier: before you type in the question text, add a single line of either

• m11 - for English question and English answer chunks
• m12 - for English question and L2 answer chunks
• m21 - for L2 question and English answer chunks
• m22 - for L2 question and L2 answer chunks

Entering L2 Text

Recall that we write a quiz using Notepad.  However, Notepad cannot display L2 characters, so you will have to create L2 text questions and answers using a program that can show these characters (unless you've memorized the keyboard).  Do something like the following:

• open Notepad and type in the quiz content, leaving out the L2 text for now.  Leave Notepad open.
• open Wordpad or FP Editor, and change the font to your language
• resize both programs so you can see them both at the same time on the screen
• type in some L2 text (for a question or an answer) in Word
• Edit/Copy the L2 text from Word
• Edit/Paste the text into the correct place in the Notepad quiz document - you will not see L2 in Notepad.  You will see gibberish English.
• repeat the last two steps for all the needed L2 material
• save the Notepad file.  Close Notepad and close the other editor.

For example, here is a completed L2 WDD quiz file for Vietnamese.  Note that the Vietnamese text is NOT displayed correctly here as just noted.  However, it will display correctly in the applet.  Text in italics are comments to help explain the meaning of each line and would not be typed into the quiz file.