37.3242, FYI: CLA Free Webinar: Dynamic Assessment and Oral Proficiency Interviews

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Subject: 37.3242, FYI: CLA Free Webinar: Dynamic Assessment and Oral Proficiency Interviews

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Date: 08-Oct-2026
From: Brandon Sherman [bjs460 at psu.edu]
Subject: CLA Free Webinar: Dynamic Assessment and Oral Proficiency Interviews


The Center for Language Acquisition will host the following free
webinar in November:
OPI-DA: A Dynamic Assessment Approach to Diagnosing Learner Oral
Proficiency
Dr. Jie Zhang and Dr. Tianyu Qin
Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
10:00am - 11:30am (EST)
Registration is required
https://tinyurl.com/t6anse9j
This webinar introduces OPI-DA, an approach that applies Dynamic
Assessment principles to the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI).
Drawing on an ongoing project with U.S. university learners of
Chinese, we will introduce the OPI-DA framework and a three-tier model
of mediation progressing from prompting, to guiding, to modeling.
Through examples from OPI and OPI-DA sessions, we will illustrate how
responsiveness to mediation can provide insights into learners’
emerging oral abilities and consider pedagogical implications for
connecting proficiency assessment with subsequent teaching and
learning.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics




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