Abstract
AbstractDynamic assessment (DA), having its theoretical base in Vygotskyan Sociocultural theory of mind, is a newly developed classroom assessment through which learners are helped to perform beyon...
Highlights
Dynamic assessment (DA) can be traced back to Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) in which mediation plays a central role (Poehner & Lantolf, 2003)
The findings revealed that tailored mediation resulted in the development of the participants’ speaking skills
The ability to use a language for oral communication is regarded by many as an ultimate goal of language learning since speaking is the main means of human communication (Lazarton, 2001), which can be affected negatively by two main conditions namely, time pressure and reciprocity conditions (Bygate, 1987)
Summary
Dynamic assessment (DA) can be traced back to Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) in which mediation plays a central role (Poehner & Lantolf, 2003). DA capitalizes on the interaction between a teacher and language learners. The teacher intervenes in order to provide the language learners with sufficient assistance to complete a task (Poehner & Lantolf, 2003). This characteristic makes DA potentially appropriate for assessing and assisting language learners to develop their speaking skills as speaking is by nature an interactive process (Son & Kim, 2017) and can be learned through interaction (Willis, 2015). Brown (2001) states that speaking skills are composed of a number of sub-skills one of which is correct use of grammatical rules, the concept of accuracy, something which has partly been addressed in the present study
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