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Matthew Poehner

Department of Curriculum and Instruction
159 Chambers Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-5203

Phone: 814-865-2161
Email: mep158@psu.edu
Matthew E. Poehner (PhD in French and Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2005) is assistant professor of World Languages Education and Applied Linguistics at Penn State. His research interests include Dynamic Assessment, Sociocultural theory, Vygotskian approaches to language pedagogy, classroom-based language assessment, and theories of second language acquisition.

Project: Dynamic Assessment

Selected Bibliography:
  • Poehner, M.E. (2008). Dynamic Assessment: A Vygotskian Approach to Understanding and Promoting Second Language Development. Berlin: Springer Publishing.
  • Lantolf, J.P. & M.E. Poehner. (Eds.). (2008). Sociocultural Theory and the Teaching of Second Languages. London: Equinox Publishing.
  • Poehner, M. E. (2007). "Beyond the test: L2 Dynamic Assessment and the transcendence of mediated learning." The Modern Language Journal, 91, 323-340.
  • Poehner, M. E., & Lantolf, J. P. (2005). "Dynamic Assessment in the language classroom." Language Teaching Research 9, 233-265.
  • Lantolf, J. P., & Poehner, M. E. (2004). "Dynamic Assessment: Bringing the past into the future." Journal of Applied Linguistics 1, 49-74.
  • Poehner, M. E., & Lantolf, J. P. (2003). Dynamic Assessment of L2 Development: Bringing the Past into the Future. (CALPER Working Paper Series, No. 1). The Pennsylvania State University, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research.

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