Assignment Of Meeting 15 Summary Assessing Grammar Book by James E. Purpure and Assessing Vocabulary book by John Read. SUMMARY ASSESSING GRAMMAR Chapter One Differing notions of ‘grammar’ for Assessment Grammar was used to mean the analysis of a language system, and the study of grammar was not just considered an essential feature of language learning, but was thought to be sufficient for learners to actually acquire another language (Rutherford, 1988). Grammar in and of itself was deemed to be worthy of study to the extent that in the Middle Ages in Europe, it was thought to be the foundation of all knowledge and the gateway to sacred and secular understanding (Hillocks and Smith, 1991). Thus, the central role of grammar in language teaching remained relatively uncontested until the late twentieth century. Even a few decades ago, it would have been hard to imagine language instruction without immediately thinking of grammar. What is meant by ‘grammar’ in theories of