LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
1.Define what innovation is.
2. Recognize the four innovations in grammar assessment; and
3. Appraise the importance of Digital game-based
grammar assessment tools in grammar assessment.
What is INNOVATION?
Innovation is the introduction of new
things, ideas or ways of doing
something.
INNOVATIONS IN GRAMMAR ASSESSMENT
The changing educational landscape
brought by local and global crises has led
curricularists to design teaching and learning
that support multimodal delivery of a
responsive curriculum.
INNOVATIONS IN GRAMMAR ASSESSMENT
Adams and Hale (2020) in an article
entitled, Stop Giving Them Answers: Make them
Think, emphasized the need for educators to
cultivate the intellect of the students, which is a
challenging process. Similarly, Brown, Roediger,
and McDaniel (2014) in Adams and Hale (2020)
advanced the tenet that student learning is
deeper and more lasting when it is effortful.
Digital game-based grammar assessment is
appealing due to the following reasons:
1. The competition provides motivation to the students, as
players, to start and finish the game.
2. When the students are engaged to play with some grammatical
units used in the game, they want to play some more and have
fun.
3. The immediate feedback students have while playing excites
them to comeback for more.
4. The reinforcement and feedback are made instantaneous.
4 INNOVATIONS IN GRAMMAR ASSESSMENT
1. Redefining the construct
2. Partial Scoring
3. The Social Dimension
4. The Standard
SUMMARY
With the advent of technology nowadays, technological adeptness is an
advantage for us future language educators. Technology-aided language
instruction has been proven to create more independent and highly-motivated
students. Currently, there are plenty of engaging tools and applications that
can help teachers in making their English classes truly engaging.
The four innovations in grammar are redefining the construct, partial
scoring, social dimension, and the standards. Furthermore, in assessing
grammar, the purpose is to assess grammatical knowledge such as the form
and meaning, as well as pragmatically knowledge or also known as the ability
to express meaning beyond language rules.
REFERENCE
Larsen-Freeman, D. (2009). Teaching and Testing
Grammar. Retrieved from https://www.teachgrammar.com/wpcontent/uploads/2012/07/Teaching-and-TestingGrammar.pdf