Testing Grammar in Context: A Case Study of the First-Year Students in the Department of English at MMUTO
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2017
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
This dissertation intends to analyze the Grammar exam papers. It seeks to investigate the use
of the grammar dimensions on grammar examinations of first year students in the Department
of English at Mouloud Mammeri university of Tizi Ouzou. It inspects whether the grammar
dimensions as concerns the form, meaning and use dimension and the use of the English
language where real context situations exist are integrated in the grammar examinations. It
emphasizes on the analysis of five English grammar examination papers of first year
university students at the level of form, meaning as well as use dimension. The corpus of our
investigation was collected and chosen from 2014 until 2016. In our investigation we relied
on two diverse qualitative and quantitative research techniques and for the sake of
interpreting the data, this study based on Freeman’s (2001) theory related to grammar. On
the basis of the research findings, we reached that grammar examinations focus more on both
form and meaning dimensions. In fact, twenty (20) of the activities correspond to both form
and meaning dimensions. Additionally, eight (8) of the activities focus on form dimension, and
just two (2) of the activities stress meaning dimension. The study ends with a conclusion
which reveals whether the three types of dimensions are used in grammar examinations or
not. Moreover, it emphasizes on the importance of using the three dimensions to join and add
meaning in context because they are complementary.
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69p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)
Keywords
Grammar, Grammar Dimensions, Testing, Context
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Linguistique Appliquée et Sémiotique Sociale