Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Competence

✍ Scribed by Naoko Taguchi

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines L2 learners’ development of pragmatic competence - the appropriate language use in a social context. It reveals patterns of development across different aspects of pragmatic abilities measured over one year and presents the participants’ experiences and the individual characteristics that shaped their developmental trajectories.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
1. Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Development: An Introduction
2. Longitudinal Studies in Interlanguage Pragmatics
3. Theoretical Framework, Research Questions and Methodology of the Study
4. Patterns and Rate of Pragmatic Development
5. Individual Differences in Pragmatic Development
6. Summary and Conclusion
Appendix A: Language Contact Profile (LCP)
Appendix B: Descriptive Statistics of LCP Results
Appendix C: Pragmatic Listening Test (PLT) Items
Appendix D: Pragmatic Speaking Test (PST) Situational Scenarios
Appendix E: Evaluation of Speech Acts: Grammar Rating Scale
Appendix F: Evaluation of Speech Acts: Appropriateness Rating Scale
Appendix G: Grammar Test for Target Pragmalinguistic Features
Appendix H: Coding Frameworks for Speech Act Expressions
References
Index