
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