ESSAY QUESTION 2: Discuss the different forms of assessment that a teacher
would use to evaluate pupils knowledge of grammar.
Assessment in grammar typically tested by discrete-item tests, including the individual components of the learners knowledge. For example, irregular past tense verb forms such as went, saw, and did are tested using tasks such as gap-fills. There is numeral forms of assessment a teacher would use to test pupils knowledge of grammar. First, one form of assessing pupils grammatical knowledge is through multiple choice questions. Pupils have to choose the correct answer from a number of alternatives. At the simplest level, multiple choice can be used to test the pupils grammatical knowledge, for example: choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. 1. Charles to work yesterday. A. doesnt go
B. hasnt go C. didnt go D. isnt going
Besides, multiple choice items can be made a greater test of all-round
comprehension if they are part of a passage or dialogue, for example: Hilary: Where are you going (on, in, off, out) to? Jane : Im just going to the shops. Could you (post, take, bring, buy) this letter with you? Jane : Of course. It tests pupils recognition of grammatical items such as prepositions. Second, another form of assessment that a teacher would use to evaluate pupils knowledge of grammar is through fill-ins. Fill-ins are those items where pupils have to fill in the blank with a word or words. Teacher provides pupils a passage with some selected words removed. For example: Look at Jennys postcard to Joanne. There are some missing words. Write one word for each space. Dear Joanne, Rome a beautiful city! The people .. very nice. Susan .not like the city very much, but likes the meals. (She loves spaghetti!) Susan has two
friends in Rome . Parlo and Kurt. live .. the north-west of
Rome. Kurt is an artist. See you soon, Love, Jenny. In this example, pupils have to understand the whole text at the same time and then write the words in spaces. This is a good test of pupils comprehension as well as of their knowledge of individual grammatical items (such as personal pronouns, preposition, and verb to be like is, are was and were. The next form of assessment to evaluate pupils knowledge of grammar would be sentence completion. It tests more of the pupils knowledge and the English usage. Pupils have to fill in the blank or complete a sentence with more than one word. For example, complete the sentences below so that they make sense. 1. A: Are you sure youll be all right? B: Dont worry- Im .. looking after myself. 2. Both teams were exhausted. They . for three hours. Pupils who complete this task successfully show that they have a lot of grammatical knowledge and that they are able to use the right vocabulary and grammar to complete the task. Other than that, the teacher would evaluate pupils knowledge of grammar through sentence reordering. For example: Put the words in order to make correct sentences. This type of test explores the pupils knowledge of syntax and is a useful addition to a test. 1. he lives / John is / and / in London. / a student Next, transformations would be another form of assessment to evaluate pupils knowledge of grammar. Basically, it tests the pupils knowledge of syntax and structure. Here, pupils have to rewrite sentences so that they have the same meaning but different grammatical structures. For example: Complete the sentences
so that they mean the same as the original sentences. Start with the words given. 1. John is taller than Mary. Mary isnt .
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