21.3556, Qs: Audit of School-Leavers' Grammatical Knowledge

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Subject: 21.3556, Qs: Audit of School-Leavers' Grammatical Knowledge

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Date: 04-Sep-2010
From: Richard Hudson < dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk >
Subject: Audit of School-Leavers' Grammatical Knowledge

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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:28:40
From: Richard Hudson [dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Audit of School-Leavers' Grammatical Knowledge

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I would like to invite colleagues outside the UK to take part in a cross-
country audit of the amount of explicit grammatical terminology that 
school-leavers know. This information is obviously crucial in planning 
undergraduate linguistics teaching, but it's also important for those of 
us who try to influence our country's school system.

The instrument is very simple, and has been used in a dozen UK 
universities. It's a one-page sheet which presents an English sentence 
and then asks the subject to identify examples of 16 word classes. It's 
easy to mark (with the help of the answer sheet which is provided) and 
the results can conveniently be summarised simply by counting errors 
or gaps for each question, and then calculating the mean gaps per 
student. I provide a mark sheet, and hope that you will share your 
results with me so that I can add them to an international database. 

The test instrument and some information about the history of the 
project so far can be found at:

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/ba-kal/ba-kal.htm

If you have any queries, please mail me at dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk

Dick Hudson 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

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