Situating language assessment: Influences form the past, directions for the future

Guest Editor: Judith Felson Duchan

Seminars in Speech and Language, Vol 21, Issue 3, 2000

Table of Contents

Foreword
Nan Bernstein Ratner

Preface
Judith Felson Duchan

All children are ready to learn: An emergent versus readiness perspective in early literacy assessment
Karen A. Erickson

Assessing socially situation participation: A way of integrating communication and social assessment approaches
Judith Felson Duchan

Dynamic assessment: An approach to assessing children’s language-learning potential
Vera F. Gutierrez Clellen

Culturally sensitive assessment of narrative skills in children
Pamela Rosenthal Rollins, Alyssa McCabe, and Lynn Bliss

Assessing children’s vocabulary skills: From word knowledge to word-learning potential
Ruth V. Watkins and Laura S. DeThorne

“Putting things in context”: Literal and discourse approaches to comprehension assessment
Rhea Paul

Assessing communicative intents: A situated pragmatics approach
Lynne E. Hewitt

Assessment of language structure: From syntax to event-based analysis
Nancy J. Lund