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Dmitri Leontjev

@dima403.bsky.social
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Senior researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies of the University of Jyväskylä.

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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.
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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Antón's commentary, who reviews the chapters in the volume in light of common #goals and differing #theoretical foundations of #DA and #DiagA, concludes the volume doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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11 Commentary: Leontjev, Poehner & Huhta (eds.), Dynamic and diagnostic language assessment. Learning across frameworks to support L2 education
11 Commentary: Leontjev, Poehner & Huhta (eds.), Dynamic and diagnostic language assessment. Learning across frameworks to support L2 education was published in Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessm...
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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
@lukeharding.bsky.social, @tinekebrunfaut.bsky.social, Huhta, and @benjaminkremmel.bsky.social discuss the potential integration of #mediation into #DIALANG2.0. The authors give an overview of #DIALANG and explore #synergies and #distinctions between #DA and #DiagA doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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10 Conceptualising DIALANG 2.0: Is there a role for mediation in a theory-driven approach to computer-based diagnostic language assessment?
10 Conceptualising DIALANG 2.0: Is there a role for mediation in a theory-driven approach to computer-based diagnostic language assessment? was published in Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment ...
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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Levi, Schlam-Salman, and Russak explore the #impact of #DiagA tools on the #professional #development of #EFL #teachers in Israel, focusing on enhancing their #PCK regarding reading, informed by #Vygotskian #Sociocultural #Theory ( #SCT) doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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9 A Sociocultural perspective of teachers’ professional development: Using diagnostic assessment to mediate beginning EFL reading
9 A Sociocultural perspective of teachers’ professional development: Using diagnostic assessment to mediate beginning EFL reading was published in Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment on page 21...
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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
In Chapter 8, Lee argues for #reconceptualising #consequential #validity in light of #DA, proposing an integrated validity framework for DA and #DiagA, focusing on the evaluation of #consequences, #washback, and #learning- and #development-inducing effects of DA and DiagA doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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8 Validity of dynamic language assessment: Re-conceptualizing consequential validity
8 Validity of dynamic language assessment: Re-conceptualizing consequential validity was published in Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment on page 189.
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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Poehner, Zhang, and Qin explore the #integration of #DA into the #ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview ( #OPI) of #university #L2 learners of #Mandarin #Chinese, building argument for enhancing #diagnostic #insights into second #L2 #oral #proficiency through such integration doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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7 From diagnostic descriptors to prognostic recommendations: An OPI–DA framework
7 From diagnostic descriptors to prognostic recommendations: An OPI–DA framework was published in Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment on page 165.
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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Hunte, Jang, and Ignacio explore the #integration of cognitive #DiagA and #DA to enhance #teaching and #learning, particularly for L2 learners and learners with learning disabilities ( #LD), emphasising the transformative potential of such integration doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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6 Cross-coupling effects of cognitive diagnostic assessment and dynamic assessment
6 Cross-coupling effects of cognitive diagnostic assessment and dynamic assessment was published in Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment on page 133.
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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Liontou and Huhta focus on #Finnish and #Chinese university students enrolled in #English courses, investigating alignment between self-assessed and tested #proficiency. The authors advocate for #integrating #DA and #DiagA to improve #self-assessment and address student needs doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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5 Paving the way for dynamic assessment through diagnostic self-assessment: A comparison of Finnish and Chinese university students
5 Paving the way for dynamic assessment through diagnostic self-assessment: A comparison of Finnish and Chinese university students was published in Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment on page ...
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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Yaru Meng and Hua Fu, in their chapter, explore the complementarity of #DA and cognitive #DiagA to develop an Attribute-based Mediation Model ( #AMM) for #English #listening comprehension, providing a framework for future #research combining DA and cognitive DiagA doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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4 Attribute-based mediation model for EFL listening: The combination of cognitive diagnostic assessment and dynamic assessment
4 Attribute-based mediation model for EFL listening: The combination of cognitive diagnostic assessment and dynamic assessment was published in Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment on page 73.
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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Susie Kim and @danielrisbell.bsky.social's chapter explores the implementation of #Korean #Pronunciation #Diagnostic (KPD) in an #intermediate-level Korean language course. The chapter also discusses future use of the KPD, including incorporating DA as a part of it doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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3 Diagnostic assessment of pronunciation in a Korean language classroom: An action research study
3 Diagnostic assessment of pronunciation in a Korean language classroom: An action research study was published in Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment on page 53.
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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment (DD-LANG) @ddlangproject.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Lu Yu and @dima403.bsky.social's chapter explores the #diagnostic value of #DA in the #development of #learners' #academic #writing. The #enrichment group outperformed control group on the #post-intervention DA. The authors also explored the development path of one learner doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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2 Dynamic assessment of L2 writing: Diagnosing and promoting L2 English learners’ academic writing abilities in the ZPD
2 Dynamic assessment of L2 writing: Diagnosing and promoting L2 English learners’ academic writing abilities in the ZPD was published in Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment on page 23.
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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 · 24/11/2025
The edited volume that #DD-Lang team members and a large number of authors worked on is finally out in #openaccess: doi.org/10.1515/9783... Across its 11 chapters, we build argument for the potential of bringing together #L2 #dynamic and #diagnostic #assessment – one of the goals of DD-Lang
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Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment
How can assessment shed light on learners’ current abilities and help chart a path for their continued development? Dynamic assessment and diagnostic language assessment are both now well established ...
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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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De Gruyter Brill Linguistics @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Our recommendation for #OAWeek addresses anyone interested in #LanguageAssessment: @dima403.bsky.social, Matthew Poehner and Ari Huhta collected the latest research on dynamic and diagnostic approaches to language assessment: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783111233918/html#bibliographicData
Book cover of "Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment" edited by Dmitri Leontjev, Matthew Poehner, and Ari Huhta.
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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 · 30/05/2025
Stefan O‘Grady, Nazlınur Göktürk & Olena Rossi presented a systematic review of AI use in language testing between 2019 and 2024 at #EALTA2025
Simplified PRISMA chart (adapted from Page et al., 2021)
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Ari Huhta, Sylvia Opriessnig, Josep Maria Montcada Escbairo, Doris MoserFrötscher, Olivia Rütti Joy, Gyula Tánko, & Karin Vogt Gave a panel discussion at #EALTA2025 focusing on assessment impact - who and how much have agency at the steering wheel? - can we make it into a discussion?
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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 · 29/05/2025
Carolyn Westbrook, Richard Spiby & Jordan Weide on corpus linguistics-based approach to investigate teachers’ challenges in language assessment at #EALTA2025
Recommendations for Assessment Literacy courses  • Course content  • Glossary with a related language-focussed task  • (Simple) quantitative and qualitative test analysis  • Facilitating assessment design and marking  • Course delivery  • Practical test development activities & peer feedback  • Topics seen from different viewpoints to raise awareness of function of assessment  • Carefully staged content  • Contextualisation  
• Frame within a particular context  • Emphasise learner-controd aspects
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Jamie Dunlea Lecture #EALTA2025: Alistair Van Moere's giving a keynote on AI innovation transforming language assessment
Breakthroughs: Al & LLM  
Application to language testing: Scoring essays for a high-stakes test  Scoring accuracy: A fine-tuned BERT model was most accurate  Detecting anomalous responses: Prompt engineering with an LLM was best  Providing qualitative feedback: Prompt engineering with an LLM was most informative  
Solution:  One Al agent retrieves the scores from the fine-tuned BERT model  Another Al agent checks for anomalous essays and flags them  Another Al agent provides qualitative feedback by prompting with an LLM
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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 · 15/04/2025
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 · 25/03/2025
Maria Matilde Olivero presented a paper on #self-exploration of an #LTE's emotions at #AAAL2025 #Self-inquiry into own #emotions as key to understanding own #identity as a #peacebuilder in teacher education
Theoretical framework of the study Bronfenbrenner and Farrel
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Adam van Compernolle gave an excellent paper on developing #L2 #indexing #capacity at #AAAL2025 #Dialectics of #language and #culture and whst it means for learner development
Tu / usted SCOBA
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Evelyn Dlaz-lturriaga on Chilean Teachers' #assessment #literacy Teacher autonomy Accountability and Support
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CHILEAN EFL TEACHERS' ASSESSMENT LITERACY: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN NATIONAL STANDARDS AND TEACHING PRACTICES
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Shuhui Yin and Carol Chapelle present their study of academic journals' author #guidelines regarding the #ethical use of #GenAI at #AAAL2025
Recommendations for applied linguistics authors

1)Know GenAl capacities and limitations in research practices
2) Evaluate and fact-check GenAl output - Disclose GenAl use
3) Search and review GenAl guidelines provided for authors - Contact journal editor for clarification whenever uncertainty exists - Adhere to journal's instructions and ensure responsible GenAl use
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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
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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
DD-Lang project's @dima403.bsky.social and Matt Poehner presented the paper: #Teacher and #researcher #positionality in #praxis: Adapting dynamic #assessment to increase #learner #agency in classrooms at #AAAL2025
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Teacher and researcher
positionality in praxis:
Adapting dynamic assessment to increase learner agency in classrooms
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Stephen May giving a plenary on #linguistic #racism, #(post)colonialism, and #indigenous #languages at #AAAL2025
Title slide of the plenaryLinguistic Racism:
Origins 1. Sociology of nationalism (1960s onward) (Anderson, Bauman & Briggs, May, Mignolo)
 • Linked Intrinsically - although not always explicitly - to racialization, (internal and external) colonization, and modern nation-building (nation-state congruence)
 • Emphasized linguistic homogeneity via 'national' (invariably, European) languages-perceived as unifying and modern
• Indigenous and other local languages were dismissed as primitive / limiting
• A socially and politically constructed process of linguistic hierarchies of prestige and an ideology of contempt toward other languages, and a recent historical development
 • Achieved via legitimation and institutionalization (esp, via education)
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Lia Plakans, Kwangmin Lee, and Marina Durinova on developing Students' #critical language #assessment #literacy: focusing on #fairness and #justice at #AAAL2025
Slide from the presentation focusing on pedagogical approach
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Erik Voss and Hansun Waring on exploring #naturalness of #AI conversational partners using #CA at #AAAL2025
Screenshot from the presentation, focusing on how conversations with chatbot are not the same as talking with a human conversation partner
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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
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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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
An interesting special session on language #teachers, teacher #educators, and #researchers #collaboration and #networking at #AAAL2025
Teachers and researchers in dialogue
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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
AAAL Denver 2025
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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!
A view of Aurajoki in Turku
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@ddlangproject.bsky.social Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment - Conceptual and Practical Innovation in Foreign Language Education and Assessment is a project I have an honour to be a part of, giving me an opportunity to work with inspiring teachers and wonderful colleagues. r.jyu.fi/DDLANG_en
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Dynamic Diagnostic Language Assessment - Conceptual and Practical Innovation in Foreign Language Education and Assessment
Dynamic and diagnostic assessment of foreign language
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
As an editor of the Apples Journal: This special issue on #arts and #embodiment in #language #education is just out of the oven: apples.journal.fi/issue/view/1... Special Issue editors: Sofia Jusslin, Niina Lilja, and Eeva Anttila
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Vol. 18 No. 4 (2024): Special Issue: Arts and Embodiment in Language Education
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
#AFINLA2024 was an excellent opportunity to see colleagues and engage in a number of discussions on assessment, the role of theory and metatheory and present two papers, one with Karim, my doctoral supervisee, one on the development of #DD-LANG project
A view of the river in Turku in sunsetA title slide of the opening of AFinLA 2024, the slide reads Language as a key to a changing wordA title slide of the DD-LANG  project presentation by Dmitri Leontjev, Ari Huhta, and Kristina Koskela, titled Can you Explain: How artifical intelligence can develop learners' Le2 English readingTitle slide of presentation by Karim Rezagah and Dmitri Leontjev, titled I had always been considering assessment as a product, not as a process
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Katariina @ksummanen.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Allekirjoitathan sinäkin. Kiitos 🤎
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Kehitysvammaisten lasten oppimateriaaleille on turvattava riittävä rahoitus
Kehitysvammaliiton oppimateriaalikeskus Opikkeen rahoitus on päättymässä vuoden 2025 alussa, kun sosiaali- ja terveysjärjestöjen avustuskeskus STEA lopettaa tukensa. Opet...
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Our paper with Mark de Boer, Content knowledge for language teaching: Dialectical materialist stance on developing teacher language awareness, has just been published in Language Awareness. doi.org/10.1080/0965...
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Content knowledge for language teaching: dialectical materialist stance on developing teacher language awareness
Morton’s language knowledge for content teaching (LKCT) is a powerful tool for understanding interactions in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classrooms, as well as CLIL teachers’ kn...
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Absolutely brilliant kick-off of 20th #EALTA Conference: Barry O’Sullivan's keynote Days of Future Passed: Language Testing in Europe
Go raibh míle
maith agaibh
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
In Houston for #AAAL2024. Really excited to participate in our SCT and Second Language Learning Working Group Meeting on Sunday at 12:30 and present our paper, Vygotskian #Praxis and #assessment #fairness, with Matt Poehner and Ari Huhta March 19 at 2:25 pm. Those attending and interested, join us!
A graffiti of a person holding child wearing a crown. The text reads, "Even the strongest of us need to be picked up at times."A graffiti in the process of being created
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Dmitri Leontjev @dima403.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Both our #LTRC2024 symposium and WIP got accepted🎉 Going to Innsbruck!
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