Assessing Second Language Pragmatics
β Scribed by Steven J. Ross, Gabriele Kasper (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 378
- Series
- Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional competencies, it examines the reception and production of speech acts through a variety of assessment methods and quantitative and qualitative analyses.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Assessing second language pragmatics: An overview and introductions....Pages 1-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Testing implicature under operational conditions....Pages 43-64
A video-based method of assessing pragmatic awareness....Pages 65-97
Item difficulty and heritage language learner status in pragmatic tests for Korean as a foreign language....Pages 98-123
Teacher-based assessment of L2 Japanese pragmatics: Classroom applications....Pages 124-148
Investigating the construct validity of a role-play test designed to measure grammatical and pragmatic knowledge at multiple proficiency levels....Pages 149-171
Interfaces between a discourse completion test and a conversation analysis-informed test of L2 pragmatic competence....Pages 172-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Oral proficiency interviews as varieties of interaction....Pages 199-219
The development of extended turns and storytelling in the Japanese oral proficiency interview....Pages 220-257
Managing task uptake in oral proficiency interviews....Pages 258-287
Pursuing a relevant response in oral proficiency interview role plays....Pages 288-310
The situation with complication as a site for strategic competence....Pages 311-326
Interactional competence and the dynamic assessment of L2 pragmatic abilities....Pages 327-353
Back Matter....Pages 355-366
β¦ Subjects
Language Teaching; Linguistics, general; Language Education; Pragmatics
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