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Author Purpura, James E. (James Enos), 1951-

Title Assessing grammar / James E. Purpura
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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 MELB  428.0071 Pur/Agr  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 305 pages ; 23 cm
Series Cambridge language assessment series
Cambridge language assessment series.
Contents 1. Differing notions of 'grammar' for assessment -- 2. Research on L2 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-290) and index
Subject Grammar, Comparative and general.
Language and languages -- Grammars.
Second language acquisition.
ISBN 052100344X (paperback)
0521802814