2. Test Items 26-35: Error Identification
Item number 26 to 35 are error identification within short conversations. This part of the test measures the students’ mastery upon English grammar
structures. The test items are constructed as grammar error identification, by which the students are required to choose a word or phrase that is grammatically
incorrect, assuming as well that they know its correct form. The incorrect word or phrase must be chosen from among four alternatives given. The students’ ability
to answer each problem requires sufficient knowledge about English sentence structures being tested. Therefore, their answer to each item would reveal how
good they master English grammar structures and their use in a sentence or conversation. Table 4.3 below shows the list of English grammar structures that
are being tested in each test item.
Table 4.3 List of Grammar Structures Tested in Part 2 of Reading Section N
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RAMMAR
S
TRUCTURES
T
ENSES
26 27
28 29
30 31
32 33
34 35
Gerund Parallel structure
Adjective clause the use of whose The use of would + V
1
polite request Preposition
Modal can showing possibility Modal shall making a suggestion
Comparison adjective superlative The use of auxiliaries
Conditional sentence untrue in the present Present perfect tense
Simple present tense Simple present tense
Simple present tense Simple future
Simple present tense Simple present tense
Simple present tense Simple past tense
Simple past tense
Grammar structures mastery that is required from the students in order for them to be able to answer each test items in this part is obviously within the scope
of grammar focus for vocational high school level. Some of them are commonly introduced to junior high school students and are learnt in advanced within
vocational high school. Each test item clearly contains different grammar structure, and thus this
group of test item attempts to represent as sufficient samples as possible of grammar structure focus learnt in vocational high school. Grammar structures that
are tested within this part are those commonly sampled within tests with the similar format error recognition. Lougheed 1989: 99-105 mentions some
typical grammar structures that usually appear in a test with this format, namely the use of count or non-count nouns, articles, pronouns, subject and verb
agreement, modal auxiliaries, adjective comparisons, as well as gerunds and infinitives. It is also seen from the test item analysis that this part is relevant to the
topics of learning for vocational high school.
3. Test Items 16-25: Incomplete Dialogues
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