Assessing Second Language Pragmatics [electronic resource] /
Ross, S.editor.
Kasper, G.editor.
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.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Transcription conventions; 1 Assessing second language pragmatics: An overview and introductions; Part I APPROACHES TO ASSESSING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE; 2 Testing implicature under operational conditions; 3 A video-based method of assessing pragmatic awareness; 4 Item difficulty and heritage language learner status in pragmatic tests for Korean as a foreign language; 5 Teacher-based assessment of L2 Japanese pragmatics: Classroom applications
6 Investigating the construct validity of a role-play test designed to measure grammatical and pragmatic knowledge at multiple proficiency levels7 Interfaces between a discourse completion test and a conversation analysis-informed test of L2 pragmatic competence; Part II FROM PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE TO INTERACTIONAL COMPETENCE: INTERACTION IN ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEWS; 8 Oral proficiency interviews as varieties of interaction; 9 The development of extended turns and storytelling in the Japanese oral proficiency interview; 10 Managing task uptake in oral proficiency interviews
11 Pursuing a relevant response in oral proficiency interview role plays12 The situation with complication as a site for strategic competence; 13 Interactional competence and the dynamic assessment of L2 pragmatic abilities; Author index; Subject index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Language and languages-Study and teaching.
Linguistics.
Language and education.
Pragmatics.
Language Teaching.
Linguistics, general.
Language Education.
Pragmatics.