Assessing second language pragmatics

Author(s)

• Ross, Steven J.
• Kasper, Gabriele

Bibliographic Information

Assessing second language pragmatics

edited by Steven J. Ross and Gabriele Kasper

（Palgrave advances in language and linguistics）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

• : pbk
• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 1. Assessing Second Language Pragmatics: Theoretical Perspectives
• Gabriele Kasper and Steven J. Ross PART I: APPROACHES TO ASSESSING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE Introduction to Part I
• Steven J. Ross 2. Testing Implicature under Operational Conditions
• Carsten Roever 3. A Video-Based Method of Assessing Pragmatic Awareness
• John Rylander, Phillip Clark an Richard Derrah 4. Item Difficulty and Heritage Language Learner Status in Pragmatic Tests for Korean as a Foreign Language
• Soo Jung Youn and James Dean Brown 5. Teacher-based Assessment of L2 Japanese Pragmatics: Classroom Applications
• Noriko Ishihara 6. Investigating the Construct Validity of a Role-Play Test Designed to Measure Grammatical and Pragmatic Knowledge at Multiple Proficiency Levels
• Kirby Grabowski 7. Interfaces between a Discourse Completion Test and a Conversation-Analysis-Informed Test of L2 Pragmatic Competence
• F. Scott Walters PART II: FROM PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE TO INTERACTIONAL COMPETENCE: INTERACTION IN ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEWS Introduction to Part II
• Gabriele Kasper 8. Oral Proficiency Interviews as Varieties of Interaction
• Paul Seedhouse 9. The Development of Extended Turns and Storytelling in the Japanese OPI
• Waka Tominaga 10. Third Position Repair as a Practice for Task Management in Oral Proficiency Interviews
• Gabriele Kasper 11. Pursuing a Relevant Response in OPI Role Plays
• Yusuke Okada and Tim Greer 12. The Situation with Complication as a Site for Strategic Competence
• Steven J. Ross and Stephen P. O'Connell 13. Interactional Competence and the Dynamic Assessment of L2 Pragmatic Abilities
• Remi A. van Compernolle

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB14472075
• ISBN:
  • 9781137352132
  • 9781137003515
• LCCN: 2013022488
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 366 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P99.4.P72
  • DC23 : 401/.45
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Pragmatics
  • LCSH : Second language acquisition
  • LCSH : Interlanguage (Language learning)
  • LCSH : Language and culture -- Study and teaching
  • LCSH : Speech acts (Linguistics)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB14472031