《语法评价》一书由美国学者James E. Purpura所著。《语法评价》为语法教学、评价与研究提供了系统的指导。作者分三部分详细呈现了语法评价的相关内容：第一部分为第一章到第四章，主要从理论上讨论语法、语法教学与评价、语法的作用以及语法能力的概念；第二部分为第五到八章，侧重于语法评价的实践，阐述测试任务的设计与开发、案例分析以及课堂学习型语法评价的实施；第三部分为第九章，回顾了语法评价的历史，并提出了语言教育者在语法评价方面所面临的挑战。

导读 F7
Series editors' preface to Assessing Grammar F33
Acknouwledgments F35
CHAPTER ONE Difering notions of 'grammar' for assessment 1
CHAPTER TWO Research on L2 grammar teaching, learning and assessment 24
CHAPTER THREE The role of grammar in models of communicative language ability 49
CHAPTER FOUR Towards a definition of grammatical ability 83
CHAPTER FIVE Designing test tasks to measure L2 grammatical ability 100
CHAPTER SIX Developing tests to measure L2 grammatical ability 146
CHAPTER SEVEN Illustrative tests of grammatical ability 181
CHAPTER EIGHT Learning-oriented assessments of grammatical ability 212
CHAPTER NINE Challenges and new directions in assessing grammatical ability 251
References 275
Index 291