Chapter 28 Assessing Students' Grammatical Ability

TypeH 
Complete the sentences: 
a. Fatema has been very successful at school. She always listens to her teachers and
always does the assignments. 
(because)
b. You will be able to buy a brand new car. You save a little money every month. 
(if)
Focus: knowledge of grammatical forms (subordinating conjunctions and dependent 
clauses) and meanings (causal and conditional relationships between two facts) 
Figure 28.Sc Completion/ Gap-fill tasks 
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Wayne Jones 
Type I 
Rewrite these sentences: 
1. It's been six years since I last saw him.
! ________________ _
2. She is good at tennis.
She plays ______________ . 
Focus: knowledge of lexical fonn and meaning (adjective 
+ 
preposition) and 
morpbosyntactic fonn and meaning (present perfect tense and aspect and changing 
the adjective 
good 
to its adverbial form 
well 
Figure 28.6 Paraphrase/ Transfonnation tasks 
EXTENDED-PRODUCTION TASKS 
These tasks measure an examinee's ability to use grammatical forms and structures to 
convey meaning at discourse level through writing and speaking. Input is provided in 
the form of a prompt that elicits performance from which we can assess the extent of a 
student's 
grammatical ability. 
The assessment of 
grammatical ability 
is usually carried 
out with reference to holistic or analytic scales where grammar is only one aspect of the 
communicative language ability 
being assessed. An assessment of a test taker's