Assessing second language pragmatics

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Assessing second language pragmatics

edited by Steven J. Ross and Gabriele Kasper

(Palgrave advances in language and linguistics)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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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

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