Purpura James E. Assessing Grammar

Cambridge University Press. 2004. — 318 pages. — (Cambridge Language Assessment). — ISBN: 052100344XA 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.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