Assessing Grammar

James E. Purpura

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511733086

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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Series editors' preface
pp ix-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

1 - Differing notions of ‘grammar’ for assessment
pp 1-23

2 - Research on L2 grammar teaching, learning and assessment
pp 24-48

3 - The role of grammar in models of communicative language ability
pp 49-82

4 - Towards a definition of grammatical ability
pp 83-99

5 - Designing test tasks to measure L2 grammatical ability
pp 100-145

6 - Developing tests to measure L2 grammatical ability
pp 146-180

7 - Illustrative tests of grammatical ability
pp 181-211

8 - Learning-oriented assessments of grammatical ability
pp 212-250

9 - Challenges and new directions in assessing grammatical ability
pp 251-274

References
pp 275-290

Index
pp 291-305

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