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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

An eventful year for #DD-Lang! Since summer we’ve presented in 7 conferences in Europe, USA and Canada. Topics focus on #dynamic-diagnostic #assessment; from complimentary value of GenAI in #mediating #learners to #teachers’ use of assessment information to guide instructional practices.

Title cards of slideshows used in different presentations.

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The introductory Chapter 1 by @dima403.bsky.social, Matthew Poehner, and Ari Huhta sets the scene by discussing the complementarity and differences of Dynamic (#DA) and Diagnostic Assessment (#DiagA), situating the two frameworks within broader #developments in #educational and #L2 #assessment

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Our DD-LANG Development Day “Shared Spaces, Separate Journeys” @opetushallitus.bsky.social on 10.11.2025 brought #teachers and #researchers together. Our goal was to develop ways to enable individual #learning trajectories while guiding groups of learners in the #classroom.

Two children on unicycles holding hands. Text reads "Learners working together (collective expert)".

Researcher Dmitri Leontjev describing the concept of learners' proximal development.

A picture of a slide describing some key pedagogical concepts with a list of questions for discussion.

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This was such a productive year for DD-LANG, with numerous meetings with #teachers and #learners, many #conference #presentations, and notable developments incorporating #AI into DD-LANG. We also wrote a paper with teachers for the #Kielikukko journal. Thank you to everyone who made this happen!

DD-Lang team's paper in Kielikukko - the Journal of the Finnish Reading Association

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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Matt Poehner, Ari Huhta, and I presented a part of the DD-Lang project's work focusing on AI as a part of mediational sequences.

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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Very interesting CBLA and MLA SIG today at #EALTA2025 with a large variety of foci, contexts, and methodologies. Vera Vesala and I presented our paper on a part of @ddlangproject.bsky.social project, focusing on our collaboration with teachers, namely, on how we together design classroom activities

Title slide of the presentation "I think the most interesting thing iscthat this would help them"

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Thu, May 28, Matt Poehner, @dima403.bsky.social, and Ari Huhta present a paper discussing #GenAI, namely #chatbot interactions as part of #mediation #sequences for #assessing and promoting #learners' L2 #English #reading abilities

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Wed, May 28, Vera Vesala and @dima403.bsky.social give a paper “I think the most interesting thing is that this would help them” focusing on #praxis with DD-Lang #teacher collaboratorsat Classroom-Based Assessment & Multilingual Language Assessment SIG meeting

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

DD-Lang team is travelling to #EALTA2025, Saltzurg. We will be presenting two papers focusing on different aspects of the project: ⏭️

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

DD-Lang team has been travelling around Finland to engage with our amazing #teacher collaborators and meet with students. We collected lots of data, had really interesting #discussions with teachers and #students, and got lots of ideas. Also, a shark is missing in Turku, apparently

A poster with the word missing written in all caps on top, a picture of a shark, and a sentence "Have you seen this shark?" Written at the bottom

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

DD-Lang team has been out and about again, collecting data. This time in #Tampere. We owe this all to our wonderful #teacher #collaborators and enthusiastic #students 🙌 Kiitos kaikille for making this happen!

a view of city centre, Tampere, Tammerkoski river, and red-brick industrial buildings.

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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Matt Poehner and Lu Yu are presenting a paper on #dynamic #assessment of #argumentative #writing, focusing on developmental trajectories of two multilingual learners at #AAAL2025

Title slide of the presentation:
Dynamic Assessment of Integrated Argumentative Writing: A Comparative Case Study of Two Multilingual Writers' Development

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We built an argument for the necessary change in teacher and reseacher positionality in praxis required for these developments to happen.

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We outlined the praxis with language teachers in DD-Lang, focusing on how our engagements with the teachers allow for simultaneous development of the DD-Lang tasks, mediation, and procedures and teacher understanding of assessment, learning and teaching with the goal to develop classroom practices.

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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Xiaozgeng Dai, Lu Yu, Zhingyuan Zhuang, Xiaofei Lu, and Matt Poehner On potential of #ChatGPT to enhance #DA of #L2 #argumentative #writing at #AAAL2025

General workflow for ChatGPT-enhsnced DA

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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Brilliant plenary by Wesley Y. Leonard on relational accountability A framework for language work and beyond At #AAAL2025

refusal as another R
Refusal understands the wisdom in a story, as well as the wisdom in not passing that story on. Refusal in research makes way for other r-words- for resistance, reclaiming, recovery, reciprocity. repatriation, regeneration -Tuck and Yang 2014, p. 244

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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Yuwei Xia and Qi Xu on #AI #integration with #Vygotskian #mediation fostering the #development of #lexical #sophistication awareness at #AAAL2025

Why Integrate Al with Mediation in Language Instruction
• Al tools provide immediate, targeted feedback enhancing learner engagement. • Teacher mediation helps learners critically assess Al-generated feedback. • Integrating Al with mediation promotes deeper metalinguistic awareness
• Encourages autonomous learning by guiding informed use of language tools
Significance:
• Combines strengths of human teachers and Al technology
• Addresses Al limitations through human judgment.
• Supports learner development within the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD).

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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

An interesting special session on language #teachers, teacher #educators, and #researchers #collaboration and #networking at #AAAL2025

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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Catherine DeFelice-Box and Anne Pomerantz on listening to your #participants in #EMI #research at #AAAL2025 Best #practices are #situated practices. EMI is different for different stakeholders in different situations.

Slide: Best practices are situated practices

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

DD-Lang project's @dima403.bsky.social is participating in #AAAL2025 conference in #Denver. Matt Poehner and Dmitri will be presenting a part of the project, focusing on our praxis with teachers on March 24 at 10.45. If you are at AAAL, consider joining us

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

DD-LANG team had great two days in #Turku last week, meeting our #teacher #collaborators and presenting the project to several groups of #students. It was an excellent opportunity to develop our ideas together, including using #AI as #pedagogical tool in the #classroom!

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

What makes DD-Lang special is that #teachers and #learners are not our participants but our collaborators. They help us to move the project forward in Zoom-meetings and discussions when we visit the #schools all around #Finland.

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We have also presented in numerous conferences throughout the world, including #AAAL2023 #AAAL2024 #EALTA2024 #LTRC2024, #AIRiAL2024, and #SCT-SLL on #mediation in #DA, #assessment #fairness #constructss, and #AI You can find our conference slides on the project page: www.jyu.fi/en/projects/...

DD-LANG project's presentation on Vygotskian praxis and assessment fairness at AAAL 2024 by Ari, Dmitri, and Matt

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Two publications are out: (1) a book on #diagnosing #writing in a second or foreign #language by Ari Huhta, Claudia Harsch, @dima403.bsky.social, and Lea Nieminen, which informed the DD-LANG project and (2) an article on construct work in #Dynamic #Diagnostic #assessment doi.org/10.30661/afi... 🧵

Cover of the Diagnosis of Writing in Second or Foreign Language book

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Here are some of the highlights of what we have achieved by the mid-point of the project with, a lot of which we owe to our wonderful teacher collaborators and and the international collaborator team 🧵

DD-LANG Project's collaborator team including scholars in the US, Canada, Europe, and China.

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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The first post of DD-LANG-project on Bluesky! We have just moved here from Twitter. Welcome to follow us! We have just finished #piloting of #AI #chatbot as a part of #mediation in learner #assessment Working with our #teacher collaborators, we are now collecting data from learner participants.

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