LINGUIST List 21.3556 Tue Sep 07 2010 Qs: Audit of School-Leavers' Grammatical Knowledge Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Richard Hudson, Audit of School-Leavers' Grammatical Knowledge Message 1: Audit of School-Leavers' Grammatical Knowledge Date: 04-Sep-2010 From: Richard Hudson <dickling.ucl.ac.uk> Subject: Audit of School-Leavers' Grammatical Knowledge E-mail this message to a friend 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 dickling.ucl.ac.uk Dick Hudson Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 07-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.