Assessing Grammar

This book provides an accessible treatment of the issues surrounding the assessment of language learners' grammatical abilities.

James E. Purpura (Author)

9780521003445, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, 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. This book presents a comprehensive framework of second language grammatical knowledge and uses this as a base to help readers 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]