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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 · 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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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

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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

Title slide of the presentation:
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

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

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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

Linguistic 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

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 · 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 title slide of the opening of AFinLA 2024, the slide reads Language as a key to a changing word

A 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 reading

Title 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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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

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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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