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.

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

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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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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.