Assessing Grammar

This title examines current language assessment instruments, outlines in an accessible manner the research in the field, and provides language teachers and test developers with practical guidelines to enable them to develop suitable assessment tools for their students.

Series editors' preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Differing notions of `grammar' for assessment

1

(23)

Research on L2 grammar teaching, learning and assessment

24

(25)

The role of grammar in models of communicative language ability

49

(34)

Towards a definition of grammatical ability

83

(17)

Designing test tasks to measure L2 grammatical ability

100

(46)

Developing tests to measure L2 grammatical ability

146

(35)

Illustrative tests of grammatical ability

181

(31)

Learning-oriented assessments of grammatical ability

212

(39)

Challenges and new directions in assessing grammatical ability

251

(24)

References

275

(16)

Index

291

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