Chapter 28 Assessing Students' Grammatical Ability


and developing tasks to elicit


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and developing tasks to elicit 
that knowledge for testing purposes" (p. 4). 
The fact that grammar is important does answer the question: "Why should we assess 
grammar?" However, these two key issues 
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defining the construct of grammar and design­
ing tasks to elicit performance from students that can be used to make inferences about 
their language ability 
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constitute the "what" and the "how" of the assessment of grammar. 
247 
Jones, W. (2012). Assessing students’ grammatical ability. In C. Coombe, P. Davidson, B. O’Sullivan, & S. 
Stoynoff (Eds.), The Cambridge guide to second language assessment (pp. 247–256). Cambridge University 
Press.


248 
Wayne Jones 
WHAT ASPECTS OF GRAMMAR SHOULD WE ASSESS? 
For language.testing purposes 
construct definition 
is vital in order for us to have a sound 
understanding of the particular skill or construct that we want to measure. Batstone ( 1995) 
refers to the "two fundamental ingredients" of 
syntax 
and 
morphology 
which together "help 
us to identify grammatical forms which serve to enhance and sharpen the expression of 
meaning" (p. 4). Without syntax, utterances would consist of a meaningless collection of 
unrelated words or lexical items; without morphology, we would be unable to modify verbs 
and nouns to indicate concepts such as time, number, and gender. These two aspects of 
grammar can also be jointly referred to as 
morphosyntax. 
Bachman and Palmer's (1996) conceptualization of 
language ability 

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