WAYS TÒ ASSESS GRAMMAR SKILL

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Greetings

Ara: goodday fellow classmates and respected teacher! Welcome to this day session! We are super
excited to have you here. Excited about the amazing conversations that we have lined up just for you!

Introduction

I’m Ara Jane Mallari and I’m Ma. Meryll Gibaga and we are your reporters for today’s online session.

OBJECTIVE

Meryll:our objective for today are:

 Recalling Grammar
 Basic grammar rules
 Knowing the reasons why students struggled with grammar
 Knowing the ways to assess grammar skills

Meryll: Before we proceed to our discussion, we prepared a inspirational video for the entire class.

( Video)

What is it that you desire most?

Meryll: How about you?What is it that you desire most?(Class question)at least two students

(Feed back after answer)

Meryll: How about you partner, what is it that you desire most?

Ara: As a future educator who is major in English, being good in grammar skills is the only thing that I
desire most and I'm aware that being good in grammar takes a lot of hardship and time.

Meryll: Great! I agreed with you partner. Just like what we've watched in our inspirational video,
studying grammar is definitely a great thing that we can do and great things happen when we our
consistent doing the things that we love without getting tired.

Meryll: Without a further ado, let’s dive in!

Ara: before we move on to our main topic, Let's take a step back and think about grammar. Is anyone
here that wants to share their knowledge about grammar?

( Class question) at least two students

( Feedback after answer)

Grammar (topic 1)

Grammar is the study of words, how they are used in sentences, and how they change in different
situations.

Ara: Basically grammar is the rules of a language governing the sounds, words, sentences, and other
elements, as well as their combination and interpretation. The word grammar also denotes the study of
these abstract features or a book presenting these rules. In a restricted sense, the term refers only to
the study of sentence and word structure (syntax and morphology), excluding vocabulary and
pronunciation.

Meryll: What is the importance of grammar?

Because it provides information that helps the reader's comprehension. It is the structure that conveys
precise meaning from the writer to the audience. Eliminate grammatical errors from your writing, and
reward your readers with clear communication.

Meryll : before we proceed,why do you think we need to study grammar?

( questions and then feedback)

Meryll:Grammar provides information that helps the readers comprehension. It is the structure that
conveys precise meaning from the writer to the audience. Eliminate grammatical errors from your
writing, and it will help us to have make a clear communication.

Meryll : now, before proceeding to our main topic which is ways to assess grammar skills we need to
tackle grammar rules first because we cannot assess grammar if we didn’t know it’s rules.

Ara : Here are some basic rules of grammar

Grammar rules (topic 2)ARA’S PART

1.Spelling errors– There is no excuse for having a spelling errors in a final draft. Everyone should use a
dictionary for checking the spelling. (Make the students read)

2.Run-on Sentences - Run-ons occur when you try to make one sentence do too much. (Make the
students read)

For example:

Marie gazed across the broad Pacific her heart was filled with dread.

To Avoid run-ons we can:

a. break the long sentence into separate sentences using period:

Marie gazed across the broad Pacific. Her heart was filled with dread.

Using period, we can separate the sentence into two to make the grammar structure correct.

b. reducing one of the clauses to a subordinate clause and adding a comma:

When Marie gazed across the broad Pacific, her heart was filled with dread.
As you can see, we add a subordinate clause “when” in the beginning of the sentence and added a
comma to make the sentence correct.

c. adding a comma and coordinating conjunction between the two clauses:

Marie gazed across the broad Pacific, but her heart was filled with dread.

In here, we used the coordinating conjunction “but” to link the sentences.

3.Fragments - Fragments occur when you've written only part of a sentence.

For example:

Because there was no other way of escaping the fire.

As you may notice, the sentence used doesn’t contains a complete thought.

That’s why fixing fragments, it make sure your sentence contains both a subject and a verb and a
complete thought.

He leaped out of the window because there was no other way of escaping the fire.

4 Subject/Verb Agreement-If the subject is singular, use a singular verb; if the subject is plural, use a
plural verb:

Example: The pig eats all day. (Singular)

The pigs eat all day. (Plural)

If there’s a singular subject, the verb ends with ‘s’, and if there’s a plural subject, the verb does not
end with ‘s’.

5.Plural& Possessive-An "s" is put at the end of a word for two reasons: to make it plural or to show
possession.

When you add an "s" to make a plural, don't use an apostrophe:

Plurals; hooks, students

Possessives: the book's pages; the student's desk

Possessives for plural nouns: the books' pages; all of the students' desks

Plural means more than one, which requires adding only an “s” at the end of most words. Example:
snake becomes snakes (more than one snake). There is no apostrophe here. Possessive means
ownership, which requires inserting an apostrophe before the “s.” Example: snake's tongue, this means
that the tongue belongs to the snake.

WHY STUDENTS STRUGGLE WITHGRAMMAR?(Topic 3) MERYLL’S PART

Meryll:Now let’s tackle the reason why students struggled with grammar. Do you have any idea class?

1. Afraid of speaking English.

 I think the reason why it happened is because of being afraid to failed or to commit mistakes in
terms of grammar. I, myself already experience this problem because when I was at my young
age I’m also afraid of speaking in front of the class using the English language, the reason why is
because I felt like every words that will come out to my mouth is wrong and it feels like my
classmates will make fun of me.But as years passed by and I get older I’ve realized that there is
no reason to be shy or afraid in speaking English whether, for exampleyou don’t the proper
pronunciation of a certain word and instead of not trying I will open my English Tagalog
dictionary to look for the pronunciation of that word and also it’s meaning.Ayon, naisip ko talaga
na kung gusto natin matuto kailangan natin mag sikap mag aral hehe
2. Lack of reading.
This one is very alarming right? Most of the students specially the young ones pays their
attentionand worse, they even spend the rest of the day playing than studying or reading a book
to improve their vocabulary. Don’t get me wrong, playing is not bad actually we all know that
playing is part of our childhood but kailangan nating hatiin yung time ng kids hindi lang sya
dapat naglalaro ng nonsense game instead they need to know when is the time they to study
and when is the time to play.
3. Some student used to speak English with wrong grammar.
So yun nga, some students used to speak English with wrong grammar, nasanay na sila. And as
I’ve said a while ago, there’s nothing wrong in trying and also, there is nothing wrong to commit
mistakes I mean its normal. Ang hindi normal e yung we will let ourselves na palagi na lang mali
sa paulit ulit na bagay for example, you pronounce beautiful as butiful why not to open a
dictionary and search for its pronunciation for you not to commit the same mistake again. For
me, mistakesexisting for us to learn from it and not to do it repeatedly.

Meryll : Now if there is a problem with grammar of course there are ways to assess it.

Meryll : We will now proceed to our main topic which is Ways to assess grammar skills.

Ways to assess grammar skills (topic 4)

ORAL INTERVIEW
You can do a one on one interview with each of your students to get a good idea of their
listening and speaking abilities.
You can schedule these types of interviews during class (perhaps take each student into the
hall to have a private discussion while the rest of the class does seat work) or schedule with
students individually.
Okay the first one is oral interview, Oral interview have two categories. The first one is it can be
the class type and also discussion and also it can be the private discussion in terms of private
and it’s called one-on-one interview of your student and also it can be have a schedule
uhhmmm and also it can be the seatmate of the student they can also uhmmm oral interview
each other. So in terms of oral, it can interview. It helps in terms of listening the singing of the
student. Uhmmm we are the one who needs to observe it and also to evaluate it and in terms
of speaking ability of our student of how they pronounce of how vocabularies that they have
are good, if their grammar structures are fine are upgrading. So that’s the way how oral
interview can help.
CLASS PRESENTATION
A presentation in class assesses a different aspect of spoken language. When you ask a student
to speak in front of the class, he is able to prepare and practice what he wants to say. He can
also research information on his topic.
The second one is the class presentation. So when we say class presentation it types uhmmm it
look like a reporting style. Okay, so in terms of class presentation, we discuss their uhmm
spoken language which is students how they have a different way of communicate. And also we
can observe their speaking skills of the students and how they become creative and how they
become critical thinking fast in certain topic that we will given on the spot. Also it can help
them to speak in the brain if it’s needed.
ROLE PLAY
Another way to assess your students' speaking abilities is by having them perform role-plays in
front of the class. By giving them a situation and roles to play, you can see how creatively your
students are able to use language with one another.
The third one is the role play. So how can well they help us to assess the grammar skills of our
students in terms of speaking ability that given of teacher to the students and also how the
students become creative to the character that she or he had. Also in terms of gestures, in
terms of pronunciation of the students in the front of the class. And also a role play can give
them creativity on how they make the role play easy and how the role play become funny or
even the flow of the play, how they can did it by a teamwork.
CLOZE EXAM
A cloze exam is an typical way to test the understanding your students have of grammar. To
write a cloze exam, write an original paragraph or take one that your students have used in
their studies. Then replace every fifth or sixth word with a blank. Ask your students to fill in the
blanks with words they think would be most logical and grammatical. You will see a variety of
answers among your students.
The fourth is the cloze exam, So cloze exam is just like a fill in the blank but this test is typically
understand the student grammar and it’s originally read to write to the paragraph form and
also the student if they have study on that certain tests. Ofcourse they are think logcally and
grammatically in terms of reading the correct words of the certain paragraph that you are given
as a teachers.
FILL IN THE BLANK
 A fill in the blank test may seem similar to a cloze exam, but this type of test is used to test a
specific grammatical structure or set of vocabulary. You can write individual sentences or an
entire paragraph for your students, but it is probably best to provide a word bank in either case.
And here we go, the fill in the blanks, So how can fill in the blank help us well like what I said
earlier and it is similar to what cloze exam. But then in terms of fill in the blank, this type of test
is specifically in the grammatical structure and also the set of the vocabularies that given under
the test. So same thing like they have it a paragraph and their paragraph sentence for the
student. And that they students think what is the provided words for the certain blank.
WRITING SAMPLE
Having your students give you a writing sample is another good way to assess their proficiency
with grammar. If you have them write something for homework you run the risk that someone
other than your student will do the writing. Often friends or native speakers will correct a non
native speaker's writing with the intention of helping, but this will not give you an accurate
picture of your student's writing.
Okay and we have here Writing sample can help assess the grammar skills of the students so we
know that writing samples is very personal for every one of us. Why? because in the writing
samples it is include your opinion, it is included what of the back of your mind have it is include
the grammar structure that how you can write the words that you have and also it is a good
way to assess as a professional teacher that grammar proficiency of the student of how the
structure are good or bad or getting chaos (hahahaha) getting guys most of the time and it’s
also typically homework on the spot. In terms of on the spot it’s very uhmm perfect for us to
analyze what are the words that come up to the mind of the student when they hear examples
some topics if they given some uhmm some words can they relate on that specific one. Okay
and here we have here also the pronounciation, the punctuation of my students in terms of
writing uhmm skills, so that is how the writing skills can help.
PORTFOLIO
To expand the material you base your students' grades on, why not assign each person to
assemble a portfolio. A portfolio is a collection of work samples that cover several aspects of
the assignments your students have completed. This is an especially effective way to assess
your students if you have the same class for reading, writing, listening, speaking and grammar.
Also we have it the portfolio. So the portfolio even the grade one (hahaha) even the elementary
they have it so in terms of portfolio it is include assigned to everyonevery personal for our
students. It includes works uhmm it includes all the activities of the students their written also
the creativity in terms of the other presentation like uhmm mga artworks that we are given. So
it’s very uhmmm have also can give us the tips because it is the same thing that how they are
become effective in terms of their reading, in terms of writing and listening and speaking and
also the grammar.
ONLINE QUIZ
You do not have to spend as much of your class time assessing your students as was often
necessary in the past. With the extensive collection of online resources for ESL students, you
can require your students to spend time at home or in a language lab period working on
exercises and quizzes available online.
And that’s down to online quiz. So here’s online quiz is very popular because nowadays uhhm
because of the pandemic and the platform of education that we have it is a very uhmm it is the
one that we use nowadays. So in terms of online quiz it is uhmm conduct on some research but
then it is a part of phase or as a student you need you just have a uhmm information
background. All in all it’s your ability t create or to make a structure of unsentenced paragraph
that you want to answer in the certain questions. Okay, so this is uhmm can have to assess the
student and if the student is still remember some topics that you have discussed or maybe
uhmm stock knowledge or also it can be unknowledgeable for the whole week uhm for the
whole sem or the whole quarter that you are done to discuss. And also it can uhmm spend time
to their home and also to their places where they are comfortable to work and also to answer
the exercise or the quizzes available and online. Well of course as a teacher you should uhmm
evaluate it.

MULTIPlE CHOICE EXAM

Sometimes the classics are often the way to go when assessing your students. If you choose to
give a multiple- choice exam, keep these pointers in mind when writing the questions. Make
sure all the answers are grammatically correct.
Okay second to the last, We have the multiple choice exam. So multiple choice exam is very
popular, before (hahahahha) but we have the pandemic but yeahhh (hahaha) so how is a
multiple choice uhmm can help us. So it is giving us something classic the way to assess our
students and also uhmm let the student point what are the answer that they have back up their
mind of course. In terms of grammar if what are the past tense, what are the present tense like
uhmmm fo those words. So something like that in terms of multiple choice grammar, in terms
of grammar subject to see how they are grammatically correct and if they remember the verb,
the noun verb can mean the adjectives, something like that.
TRUE AND FALSE QUIZ
The true/false quiz is also a classic that is used by most teachers. When you use this type of
test, do not give trick questions that focus on minor details. Even more important, have your
students correct the questions that they say are false. If they are making the corrections rather
than just identifying the mistakes, ill make sure they you ware answering from what they know
rather than making lucky guesses. You can assign one point to each answer and another point
to each correction on the test.
And the last but not the least is very popular, the true and false quiz. So how it can have also
the true and false quiz is also classic and popular uhmm now the reason even before because
you can have it through uhmm online platform. Okay so true and false are very uhmm
important and to see how the student correct the questions and if they are answer the false,
so let’s them think a critical thinking. If it is correct or not, something like that. If they have still
knowledgeable in the past topic that you have discussed and also uhmm the false answer. And
also it can easy to identify their mistakes but then as a professional professor it is better to if
they have got a mistake, you must give the correct one, the correct answer so that they review
it or they have uhmm observe what where are the questions that they got uhm wrong.

WHY GRAMMAR ASSESSMENT IMPORTANT

The particular test is based on the English Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling concepts that
will be very helpful in order to assess the basic and fundamental principles of English grammar
spelling of the candidates. The test is basically associated with the abbreviations and common
words, punctuation, parts of speech and so on.
V The particular test is essential for various profiles that need a candidate to be fluent in
English such as Marketing, Sales, Technical or Customer support.
V In term of assessment, grammar is central to language description and test taker
performance. Today, the knowledge of grammar is evaluated by its correct use in
communication through listening, speaking, reading, and writing in second language.
Communicative competence has four components: grammatical, sociolinguistic, discourse, and
strategic competence. Grammatical knowledge consist of three elements. a) Grammatical forms
or the structures of a language. b) The grammatical meaning of those forms. c) Their pragmatic
meaning or use in a given context.