期刊名称：LAHOR: journal for Croatian as mother, second and foreign lanugage
印刷版ISSN：1846-2197
电子版ISSN：1848-4972
出版年度：2008
卷号：2
期号：6
页码：183-197
出版社：Crotian Philological Society
摘要：Reliability and validity are important for any placement test, but it is more important in some cases when it is crucial to place students in appropriate classes at the university or other educational program. Such is the case in short term intensive language courses, since misplacement could cause students to spend a considerable part of the language course in an inappropriate group. According to the various criteria, language placement tests can be syllabus or proficiency oriented, norm-referenced or criterion-referenced, discrete point tests or integrated tests, etc.\\ This paper deals with one type of placement test for Croatian as L2. The type of course (short intensive language course), the learner's first language, their experience with formal instruction in Croatian as L2, as well as their number and level of Croatian knowledge influences test design and it's type. The discussed test is a syllabus oriented, multilevel and discrete point test. It is used for assessing the students' grammar competence, vocabulary, syntactic structures and their writing skills. In the paper special emphasis is put on the importance and place of grammar in modern language curricula and language testing. It is also shown how the proposed test discriminates between language learners at different level of Croatian language knowledge on the bases of three language features: cases, present tense and prepositions. The verbal-case agreement (for instrumental case) and two verb classes (ati -im, ati -em) discriminate between low and high beginners, as the less frequent prepositions (za $+$ G, uz $+$ A) discriminate between high beginners and intermediate level.
关键词：placement tests; grammar; Croatian as L2; language assessment
