Transcript Dynamic Assessment of EFL Text Comprehension

Dynamic Assessment of EFL text Comprehension
Alex Kozulin & Erica Garb
 Selection or construction of the text amenable to
the use of cognitive strategies and hierarchical.
 Pre-test (with sample mediation)
 Information page (revision of knowledge required)
 Mediation including analysis of mistakes made by
students during the pre-test and introducing
metacognitive strategies
 Post-test using a parallel version of pre-test items
Pre-test (1)

TEXT 1 - PRE-TEST
 Where are you going?
 a) I am not at home.
 b) You are going to the post office.
 c) I am going home.
 d) She is going home.
Pre-test (2)
Subject Verb
You
live
Complement
in Israel
‫ פועל עזר‬Subject Verb Complement
Do
you
live
in Israel ?
‫ פועל עזר‬Subject Verb
Why do
you
live
?
Complement
in Israel ?
Questions –pre-test 2
in school books we many
read .
__________________________________
crying
why
she
is
?
___________________________________
study
last year you
did ?
Example of mediation
 Knowledge required:
 Auxiliary verbs, question words, personal





pronouns, subject, verb, complement.
Strategies for mediation
Looking for clues
Comparison
Using a model
New learning: question forms
Pre- test (3)
 David and I were tourists in Europe last




summer.
The story
happened in the past
is happening now
happens every summer
Results of testing
N=23; Age: 18-25
Pre-test score:50
Post-test score: 66.5
Effect size: 1.2
Correlation of pre-test and
post-test scores: strong
positive
Correlation of pre-test and
gain scores: negative
Individual cases: T, H, L, A.
90
80
70
60
50
Pre
Post
40
30
20
10
0
T.
H.
L.
A.
Bibliography
Kozulin, A.& Garb, E. (2002). Dynamic assessment
of EFL text comprehension. School Psychology
International, 23, 112-127.
Kozulin, A.& Garb, E. (2004). Dynamic assessment
of literacy: English as a third language. European
Journal of Psychology of Education, 19, 65-77.