Sách Assessing Grammar

Title: Assessing Grammar

Series: Cambridge Language Assessment

Author(s): James E. Purpura

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 978-0521802819

Date: 2004

Pages: 317

Size: 1.13 Mb

Format: PDF

Quality: High

Language: American English

Contents:

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.

Contents

Series editors’ preface

page ix

Acknowledgments

xi

1 Differing notions of ‘grammar’ for assessment

1

2 Research on L2 grammar teaching, learning and assessment 24

3 The role of grammar in models of communicative language

ability

49

4 Towards a definition of grammatical ability

83

5 Designing test tasks to measure L2 grammatical ability 100

6 Developing tests to measure L2 grammatical ability

146

7 Illustrative tests of grammatical ability

181

8 Learning-oriented assessments of grammatical ability 212

9 Challenges and new directions in assessing grammatical

ability

251

References

275

Index

291

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