APPENDIX
Sample Test Items from Language Awareness Test
GRAMMAR COMPONENT
A. Metalanguage production
Look at the twelve sentences below. What grammatical terms would you use to describe the item underlined in each of the sentences? NOTE: For each item provide a full description.
Examples:
1. It was the most exciting film she had ever seen.
superlative adjective
2. I saw Jenny last Saturday.
verb in past simple tense
B. Grammatical error correction and explanation
This section consists of fifteen English sentences, each of which contains a grammar mistake. For each sentence:
1. Rewrite the faulty part of the sentence correctly. (There is only one part that is wrong.) Do NOT rewrite the whole sentence.
2. Underneath each sentence explain the error.
Example:
I often goes to the cinema.
Correct version: go
Explanation: The verb must agree with the subject
[Do NOT write : Change ‘goes’ to ‘go’]
VOCABULARY COMPONENT
A. Word Structure
Divide the following words into morphemes (as in the examples) and say how many morphemes each word contains.
Examples:
Superman: super|man- 2
Anticlockwise: anti|clock|wise– 3
B. Lexical Relations
How would you describe the lexical relations between the words in italics:
Example:
Musical instrument – guitar: super-ordinate and subordinate
C. Vocabulary error correction and explanation
This section consists of fifteen English sentences, each of which contains a vocabulary mistake.
For each sentence:
1. Rewrite the faulty part of the sentence correctly. (There is only one part that is wrong.) Do NOT rewrite the whole sentence.
2. Underneath each sentence explain the error.
Example:
I need some informations.
Correct version: information
Explanation: “information” is uncountable and has no plural form.
