James Purpura

Assessing Grammar

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780521003445
• ISBN-10: 052100344X
• Artikelnr.: 21148861

Inhaltsangabe

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