Contents 导读 F7

Series editors' preface to Assessing Grammar F33

Acknouwledgments F35

CHAPTER ONE Difering notions of 'grammar' for assessment 1

CHAPTER TWO Research on L2 grammar teaching, learning and assessment 24

CHAPTER THREE The role of grammar in models of communicative language ability 49

CHAPTER FOUR Towards a definition of grammatical ability 83

CHAPTER FIVE Designing test tasks to measure L2 grammatical ability 100

CHAPTER SIX Developing tests to measure L2 grammatical ability 146

CHAPTER SEVEN Illustrative tests of grammatical ability 181

CHAPTER EIGHT Learning-oriented assessments of grammatical ability 212

CHAPTER NINE Challenges and new directions in assessing grammatical ability 251

References 275

Index 291