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engage measures of grammatical ▪ The assessment purpose and the

performance. construct that is going to be
measure.

▪ To consider the kinds of grammatical
performance required in order to

provide evidence in support of the
inferences.

▪ After the inferences are specified, it

is required to support these claims to
design test tasks to measure what

students know about grammar or
how they are able to use

grammatical resources to

accomplish a wide range of activities
in the target language.

CHALLENGE FIVE
Assessing the development of Ellis (2001) states that grammar scores

grammatical ability should be calculated to provide a measure
of grammatical accuracy and the underlying

“The challenge for language testers is to acquisitional development of L2 students.
design, score and interpret grammar

assessments with a consideration for ▪ With limited or extended production

developmental proficiency” (Pupura, tasks. Teachers can give learners
2005; p. 273) credit for and feedback by judging

performance on these tasks by

means of analytic rating scales.

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