Good

Afternoon!
Let’s begin this
lesson with a
big smille!
WAYS TO ASSESS
GRAMMAR
SKILLS
Teaching and Assessment of Grammar
At the end of the lesson students are
expected to:
• familiarize the elements of grammatical knowledge;

• share their appreciation to what they have learned; and

• construct an essay in relevance to the importance

of knowing ways to assess grammar skills.
 What is
Assessing
Grammar?
Table of
Contents!
Grammatical Designing
Knowledge Assessment Tasks:
Four Components Limited Production
Three Elements

Designing Designing
Assessment Tasks: Assessment Tasks:
Selected Response Extended Production
Grammatical Communicative competence
has four components:
Knowledge • Grammatical
• Social Linguistic
• Discourse
• Strategic Competence
 Three Elements of
Grammatical Knowledge

Grammatical Grammatical Their Pragmatic

forms or the meanings of meaning or use
structures of a those forms in a given
language context
 Designing
Assessment Task:
Selected Response
 Multiple Choice
The most common selected
response task presents a blank
or underline the words in a
sentence and the test taker
must choose the correct
response from the options that
are given.
- Grammatical form and
Grammatical meaning
Discrimination Tasks
The task that ask the test takers
to attend to input that can be
either language or non-language
and to respond in the form of a
choice between or among
contrast or opposites , such as
true or false questions.
- Grammatical form and
Grammatical meaning
Noticing Tasks or
Consciousness-
Raising Tasks
Test takers are asked to indicate,
underline or circle that they have
identified the specific feature in
the language example.

- Grammatical meaning
 Designing
Assessment Task:
Limited Production
 Gap-filling Tasks
The language is presented in
the form of sentence ,
dialogue , or passage in which
a number of words are
deleted.
Short-answer Tasks
The input is presented in the
form of a question following
reading a passage or a visual
stimulus.
Dialogue-completion Tasks
The input is presented in the form
of a short conversation or
dialogue in which a part of the
exchange or the entire exchange
is left blank and the expected
response meant to be
grammatically correct.
 Designing
Assessment Task:
Extended
Production
Information Gap Task
Presents the input in terms of
incomplete information. That is,
one test-taker is given half- or
some- of the information and
another test-takers is given
complementary information.
Both test-takers then have a
question each other to get all the
information.
- Grammatical form, meaning
and pragmatic use
Role-play or
Simulation Tasks
The input presents test-takers
with a language or non language
prompt that asks them to take on
a role or stimulate a situation to
solve a problem, make decision,
or perform some transaction
collaboratively.

- Grammatical form, meaning and

pragmatic use
A philosopher once
said,

“Half of good
philosophy is good
Grammar.”
— Aloysius P. Martinich
 Prepared by:
Gemmarie B. Grubat
BSED2 - English
Thanks!
References:
• https://youtu.be/2pspcnA-4s0

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