Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing

✍ Scribed by Eva Alcón Soler (editor); Alicia Martínez-Flor (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. It brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings and focuses on different foreign languages.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
The Contributors
Preface
Introduction
1. Pragmatics in Foreign Language Contexts
Part 1: Investigating How Pragmatics Can Be Learned in Foreign Language Contexts
2. Language Socialization Theory and the Acquisition of Pragmatics in the Foreign Language Classroom
3. Talking with a Classroom Guest: Opportunities for Learning Japanese Pragmatics
4. Pragmatic Performance: What are Learners Thinking?
5. Learning Pragmatics in Content-based Classrooms
6. Computer-mediated Learning of L2 Pragmatics
Part 2: Investigating How Pragmatics Can Be Taught in Foreign Language Contexts
7. Using Translation to Improve Pragmatic Competence
8. Effects on Pragmatic Development Through Awareness-raising Instruction: Refusals by Japanese EFL Learners
9. Enhancing the Pragmatic Competence of Non-native English-speaking Teacher Candidates (NNESTCs) in an EFL Context
Part 3: Investigating How Pragmatics Can Be Tested in Foreign Language Contexts
10. Investigating Interlanguage Pragmatic Ability: What Are We Testing?
11. Raters, Functions, Item Types and the Dependability of L2 Pragmatics Tests
12. Rater, Item and Candidate Effects in Discourse Completion Tests: A FACETS Approach