Ria said, "There are no grammar questions in any of the national or
provincial exams. I have old papers and I can vouch for that. There is a lot
of usage, that is filling in the correct word, but that is not a grammar
question. A grammar question asks you to change these verbs to adverbs or
other similar exercises.
Therefore, actual grammar and terminology is not needed by the students. If
they speak the language in every lesson they will know the fill in answers
easily."
I believe Ria is saying there are no grammar RULE questions, just USAGE
questions.
I'm getting a little tired of all of this talk about Chinese teachers have
to teach the grammar to the students for them to pass the test. It is simply
not true.
The CET grammar and vocabulary test is primarily a test that would be
answered by the kind of things students have learned by Extensive Reading,
not of what their teachers taught them in grammar and vocabulary classes.
If you carefully check each question on the CET, you'll find that it is
likely no teacher ever taught the students the answer, the grammar rule, to
most of those questions.
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