This was such a productive year for DD-LANG, with numerous meetings with #teachers and #learners, many #conference #presentations, and notable developments incorporating #AI into DD-LANG.

We also wrote a paper with teachers for the #Kielikukko journal.

Thank you to everyone who made this happen!

Matt Poehner, Ari Huhta, and I presented a part of the DD-Lang project's work focusing on AI as a part of mediational sequences.

Very interesting CBLA and MLA SIG today at #EALTA2025 with a large variety of foci, contexts, and methodologies. Vera Vesala and I presented our paper on a part of @ddlangproject.bsky.social project, focusing on our collaboration with teachers, namely, on how we together design classroom activities

DD-Lang team is travelling to #EALTA2025, Saltzurg. We will be presenting two papers focusing on different aspects of the project: ⏭️

DD-Lang team has been travelling around Finland to engage with our amazing #teacher collaborators and meet with students. We collected lots of data, had really interesting #discussions with teachers and #students, and got lots of ideas.
Also, a shark is missing in Turku, apparently

DD-Lang team has been out and about again, collecting data. This time in #Tampere.
We owe this all to our wonderful #teacher #collaborators and enthusiastic #students 🙌
Kiitos kaikille for making this happen!

Matt Poehner and Lu Yu are presenting a paper on #dynamic #assessment of #argumentative #writing, focusing on developmental trajectories of two multilingual learners at #AAAL2025

DD-Lang project's @dima403.bsky.social and Matt Poehner presented the paper:
#Teacher and #researcher
#positionality in #praxis:
Adapting dynamic #assessment to increase #learner #agency in classrooms
at #AAAL2025

Xiaozgeng Dai, Lu Yu, Zhingyuan Zhuang, Xiaofei Lu, and Matt Poehner
On potential of #ChatGPT to enhance #DA of #L2 #argumentative #writing at #AAAL2025

Brilliant plenary by Wesley Y. Leonard on relational accountability
A framework for language work and beyond
At #AAAL2025

Yuwei Xia and Qi Xu on #AI #integration with #Vygotskian #mediation fostering the #development of #lexical #sophistication awareness at #AAAL2025

An interesting special session on language #teachers, teacher #educators, and #researchers #collaboration and #networking at #AAAL2025

Catherine DeFelice-Box and Anne Pomerantz on listening to your #participants in #EMI #research at #AAAL2025
Best #practices are #situated practices.
EMI is different for different stakeholders in different situations.

DD-Lang project's @dima403.bsky.social is participating in #AAAL2025 conference in #Denver.
Matt Poehner and Dmitri will be presenting a part of the project, focusing on our praxis with teachers on March 24 at 10.45. If you are at AAAL, consider joining us

DD-LANG team had great two days in #Turku last week, meeting our #teacher #collaborators and presenting the project to several groups of #students. It was an excellent opportunity to develop our ideas together, including using #AI as #pedagogical tool in the #classroom!

The first post of DD-LANG-project on Bluesky! We have just moved here from Twitter. Welcome to follow us! We have just finished #piloting of #AI #chatbot as a part of #mediation in learner #assessment

Working with our #teacher collaborators, we are now collecting data from learner participants.