Audit of School-Leavers' Grammatical Knowledge

[Damien Hall]

Inspired by the 'unhappiness' thread and the subsequent reflections on what 
grammar / grammatical terms students do and do not know, I'm reposting here 
a link to something that I saw on the LINGUIST List this morning, in case 
others did not see it.

Dick Hudson would appreciate it if colleagues not in the UK would 
administer an apparently simple questionnaire to their beginning-level 
Linguistics classes, to gauge the amount of grammatical terminology they 
know when they enter University (ie after their high-school education). 
Further details are on LINGUIST, here:

http://linguistlist.org/pubs/sums/query-details.cfm?submissionid=2646814

Damien

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