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Donato, Richard; Davin, Kristin J. – Language Teaching Research, 2018
This article reports findings from an investigation into how novice teachers' classroom discursive practices were influenced by history-in-person processes. Thought-based and practice-based data sources of two novice teachers were analysed to understand how history is brought to the present through the minds and bodies of individuals as they are…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
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Davin, Kristin J.; Herazo, José D.; Sagre, Anamaría – Language Teaching Research, 2017
This article examines how four second language (L2) teachers' discursive practices changed as they attempted to implement dynamic assessment (DA) in their classrooms. Classroom artifacts, lesson recordings, and reflections from two pre-service teachers and two in-service teachers, both before and after a professional development series on DA, were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development, Teacher Education
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Davin, Kristin J. – Language Teaching Research, 2013
This article explores how a primary school teacher utilized the frameworks of dynamic assessment (DA) and the instructional conversation (IC) within a Spanish as a foreign language classroom. DA was used to construct zones of proximal development with individuals in the classroom context. A menu of pre-scripted assisting prompts, used to respond…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sociocultural Patterns, Spanish, Second Language Instruction