By Graham Lock
ISBN-10: 0521453054
ISBN-13: 9780521453059
This booklet presents moment language academics with a sensible description of English grammar, within which grammar is considered now not as a suite of principles yet as a communicative source. It explores ways that English grammar permits audio system and writers to symbolize their event of the realm, to engage with each other, and to create coherent messages. every one bankruptcy contains a specialize in troublesome areas for moment language beginners, a number of real examples, initiatives which enable the reader to use the thoughts brought, and dialogue questions. a last bankruptcy covers matters within the studying and educating of grammar and stories methodological thoughts for the second one or international language lecture room. practical English Grammar assumes no earlier learn of linguistics or English grammar. it's appropriate for self-study or as a textbook in instructor education schemes.
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There is a slight tendency of respondents to answer 'yes' rather than 'no' in self-rating questions. It appears preferable to be positive rather than negative (Kline, 1983). This also tends to hold with a preference for 'Agree' rather than 'Disagree' and 'Like Me' rather than 'Not Like Me'. (5) Self awareness. A self rating depends on accuracy of knowledge about oneself. This entails a knowledgeable frame of reference. For one person, the frame of reference may be other neighborhood children who are not so fluent.
Particular attention in this chapter has been given to criterion referenced tests measuring mastery of specific language objectives. Suitable for both first and second languages, sometimes based on theoretical principles, sometimes eclectic, such tests tend to relate directly to the process of teaching and learning. The chapter considered theories of the structure of language competence. Such theories join the first two chapters, integrating issues of definition with ideas about measurement. < previous page page_32 next page > < previous page page_33 next page > Page 33 In particular, the focus has been on linking a linguistic view of language competence with a communicative view.
Another danger is of raising language measurement to the level of scientific measurement with an accompanying exaggerated mystique. g. recording natural conversation) as they rarely carry the mystique of educational and psychological (psychometric) measurement. (8) Narrow sampling of dimensions of language. Language measurement may unwittingly be perceived as something tangible and concrete (as when measuring height and weight). Rather, language tests mostly contain a specification of language skills that is hypothetical and debated.
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