Assesssing Language Knowledge: Grammar & Vocabulary MODULE 1

Assesssing Language Knowledge: Grammar & Vocabulary MODULE 1 Unit 15 1 PROSET - TEMPUS

Lecture plan 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? Accuracy Fluency Language Usage (rules) Use of English (communicative skills) Educational purposes: pragmatic and developmental PROSET - TEMPUS 3

Educational purposes 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 Achievement Diagnostic Proficiency Placement Students Parents 5 PROSET - TEMPUS

Testing grammar: content/ construct Morphology Syntax PROSET - TEMPUS 6

Testing grammar: techniques Gap filling Paraphrase Completion Multiple choice 7 PROSET - TEMPUS

Testing vocabulary Testing recognition ability Testing production ability TO KNOW A WORD MEANS TO KNOW ITS Forms Meaning/s Collocations Prepositional use (if necessary) Connotation 8 PROSET - TEMPUS

Testing recognition ability: techniques Recognize synonyms Recognize definitions Recognize appropriate word for the context Recognize appropriate preposition to go with the word in the given context Recognize the appropriate picture for the word 9 PROSET - TEMPUS

Testing production ability: techniques Pictures Definitions Gap filling Cloze Finding and correcting mistakes Multiple choice Multiple matching Transformation 10 PROSET - TEMPUS