Can you teach word derivation in English as a foreign language?

What is it about?

It reports on a case study with on the one hand aimed at exploring what a dynamic test (i.e., a test in which assessment and instruction are merged into a single process) of such an idiosyncratic feature as word derivation in English as a foreign language can look like and how it can direct the development of learners' word derivational knowledge. Specifically, I traced how one learner's strategic learning developed as the result and in the course of both a dynamic test with a human assessor and a computerised dynamic test of word derivational knowledge in English. I also studied whether dynamic assessment promoted this learner's unassisted performance on the tasks eliciting his word derivational knowledge in English as a foreign language.

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