Assessing Grammar

Assessing Grammar provides essential reading for teachers who need to evaluate their students' grammar.

James E. Purpura (Author)

9780521003445, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 November 2004

318 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.525 kg

A renewed interest in grammar from pedagogical and research perspectives has created the need for new approaches to assessing the grammatical ability of language learners. Assessing Grammar presents a broadened and comprehensive framework of second language grammatical knowledge and uses this as a base to help teachers create their own assessment tools to test students' grammar.

1 Differing notions of grammar for assessment 2 Research on L2 grammar teaching, learning and assessment 3 The role of grammar in models of communicative language ability 4 Towards a definition of grammatical ability 5 Designing test tasks to measure L2 grammatical ability 6 Developing tests to measure L2 grammatical ability 7 Illustrative tests of grammatical ability 8 Learning-oriented assessments of grammatical ability 9 Challenges and new directions in assessing grammatical ability

Subject Areas: ELT grammar, vocabulary & pronunciation [ELG], Applied linguistics for ELT [EBAL]