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@article{ART001635668},
author={Pyo Kyonghyon},
title={Application of Dynamic Assessment in a College Writing Class},
journal={Modern English Education},
issn={1598-0782},
year={2012},
volume={13},
number={1},
pages={69-91}

TY - JOUR
AU - Pyo Kyonghyon
TI - Application of Dynamic Assessment in a College Writing Class
JO - Modern English Education
PY - 2012
VL - 13
IS - 1
PB - The Modern English Education Society
SP - 69
EP - 91
SN - 1598-0782
AB - The present study aims to explore the applicability of dynamic assessment (DA), an alternative way of conceptualizing the relationship between assessment and instruction from the Vygotskian perspective, as part of a formal classroom assessment. It further seeks to explore any insights into learners' writing abilities through an application of DA to an L2 learning context at the Korean college setting and the possibility of promoting learners' abilities through DA. Fifteen university students taking a paragraph-writing class were asked to complete a comparative composition. Student performances were interpreted through an interactionist analytical approach. The findings reveal that DA is an effective means of understanding learners' L2 abilities by determining precise Zones of Proximal Development (ZPDs) and uncovering the extent of a problem that learners experience. At the same time, DA has shown differential qualitative changes to mediated support among learners. Based on the current study's rather stable application of DA as a classroom assessment tool, more research should be directed to integrate some of psychometric constructs into DA framework for wider acceptance in the English Language Teaching (ELT) assessment area.
KW - dynamic assessment;Vygotsky;L2 assessment
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Pyo Kyonghyon. (2012). Application of Dynamic Assessment in a College Writing Class. Modern English Education, 13(1), 69-91.

Pyo Kyonghyon. 2012, "Application of Dynamic Assessment in a College Writing Class", Modern English Education, vol.13, no.1 pp.69-91.

Pyo Kyonghyon "Application of Dynamic Assessment in a College Writing Class" Modern English Education 13.1 pp.69-91 (2012) : 69.

Pyo Kyonghyon. Application of Dynamic Assessment in a College Writing Class. 2012; 13(1), 69-91.

Pyo Kyonghyon. "Application of Dynamic Assessment in a College Writing Class" Modern English Education 13, no.1 (2012) : 69-91.

Pyo Kyonghyon. Application of Dynamic Assessment in a College Writing Class. Modern English Education, 13(1), 69-91.

Pyo Kyonghyon. Application of Dynamic Assessment in a College Writing Class. Modern English Education. 2012; 13(1) 69-91.

Pyo Kyonghyon. Application of Dynamic Assessment in a College Writing Class. 2012; 13(1), 69-91.

Pyo Kyonghyon. "Application of Dynamic Assessment in a College Writing Class" Modern English Education 13, no.1 (2012) : 69-91.