Abstract
The most important purpose of placement testing is to place learners in a class that is appropriate for their level. It is also important to grasp the learners' ability to effectively use grammar, not just their knowledge of it. In this report, the authors added description-type and conversational style grammar questions to conventional tests and verified the effectiveness of the new question formats to measure the test takers' ability to use Japanese grammar properly as well as their knowledge of it. As a result, it was found that conversational style questions are more effective than conventional selective questions to place intermediate learners into appropriate classes.
