抄録
The present study investigates whether or not grammaticality judgment tests reflect a learner's linguistic competence. The results of this experiment on grammaticality judgment showed the following: 1) On our grammaticality test, learners with high scores on a TOEFL-type pre-test did better than those with low scores on the TOEFL-type pre-test, notably showing that the former are stronger than the latter with Universal Grammar (UG) items. 2) Those with high scores on the TOEFL-type pre-test apparently make grammatical judgments more frequently based on their theoretical knowledge of grammar than those with low scores. 3) In making judgments, those with low scores more frequently utilized the strategy of guessing, as opposed to those with high scores. Finally, several other issues related to this study are mentioned for continued research which can help prove grammatical judgment tests to be a valid method of measuring a learner's competence and creativity of the learner language, i.e., Interlanguage.
