8_Vocabulary and lexics.ppt
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Assesssing Language Knowledge: Grammar & Vocabulary MODULE 1 Unit 15 PROSET - TEMPUS 1
Lecture plan 1. 2. 3. 4. Why teach grammar and vocabulary? Use or usage? + Why assess grammar and vocabulary? Test types and their purpose. + What to assess: construct of grammar and vocabulary tests. + Different tasks aimed at testing grammar and vocabulary, their benefits and limitations. PROSET - TEMPUS 2
Why teach grammar and vocabulary? n n n Accuracy Fluency Language Usage (rules) Use of English (communicative skills) Educational purposes: pragmatic and developmental PROSET - TEMPUS 3
Educational purposes n n pragmatic – range of vocabulary and grammar; grammatical and speech functions; flexibility; CEFR and levels of proficiency. developmental (cognitive development, generalizations, language and info search, paradigms, semantic field and thesaurus, mind mapping, etc. ) PROSET - TEMPUS 4
Why assess language knowledge? Types of tests and their purpose Ø Achievement Ø Diagnostic Ø Proficiency Ø Placement n n Students PROSET - TEMPUS 5
Testing grammar: content/ construct n Morphology n Syntax PROSET - TEMPUS 6
Testing grammar: techniques Gap filling n Paraphrase n Completion n Multiple choice n PROSET - TEMPUS 7
Testing vocabulary Testing recognition ability n Testing production ability n Ø Ø Ø TO KNOW A WORD MEANS TO KNOW ITS Forms Meaning/s Collocations Prepositional use (if necessary) Connotation PROSET - TEMPUS 8
Testing recognition ability: techniques Recognize synonyms n Recognize definitions n Recognize appropriate word for the context n Recognize appropriate preposition to go with the word in the given context n Recognize the appropriate picture for the word n PROSET - TEMPUS 9
Testing production ability: techniques Pictures n Definitions n Gap filling n Cloze n Finding and correcting mistakes n Multiple choice n Multiple matching n Transformation n PROSET - TEMPUS 10
8_Vocabulary and lexics.ppt