Assessing Grammar

Name: Assessing Grammar
Price: 5.19 USD
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ISBN: 9780521003445

ISBN-10: 052100344X

ISBN-13: 9780521003445

Edition: 2004

Authors: James E Purpura, J. Charles Alderson, Lyle F. Bachman

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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.

Book details

List price: $69.25
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English




Differing notions of 'grammar' for assessment



Research on L2 grammar teaching, learning and assessment



The role of grammar in models of communicative language ability



Towards a definition of grammatical ability



Designing test tasks to measure L2 grammatical ability



Developing tests to measure L2 grammatical ability



Illustrative tests of grammatical ability



Learning-oriented assessments of grammatical ability



Challenges and new directions in assessing grammatical ability