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Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Steven J. Ross

    1. University of Maryland, USA

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  2. Gabriele Kasper

    1. University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, USA

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics (PADLL)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Assessing second language pragmatics: An overview and introductions

    1. Assessing second language pragmatics: An overview and introductions

      • Gabriele Kasper, Steven J. Ross
      Pages 1-40

  3. Approaches to Assessing Pragmatic Competence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Testing implicature under operational conditions

      • Carsten Roever
      Pages 43-64

    3. A video-based method of assessing pragmatic awareness

      • John Rylander, Phillip Clark, Richard Derrah
      Pages 65-97

    4. Item difficulty and heritage language learner status in pragmatic tests for Korean as a foreign language

      • Soo Jung Youn, James Dean Brown
      Pages 98-123

    5. Teacher-based assessment of L2 Japanese pragmatics: Classroom applications

      • Noriko Ishihara
      Pages 124-148

    6. Investigating the construct validity of a role-play test designed to measure grammatical and pragmatic knowledge at multiple proficiency levels

      • Kirby Grabowski
      Pages 149-171

    7. Interfaces between a discourse completion test and a conversation analysis-informed test of L2 pragmatic competence

      • F. Scott Walters
      Pages 172-195

  4. From Pragmatic Competence to Interactional Competence: Interaction in Oral Proficiency Interviews

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Oral proficiency interviews as varieties of interaction

      • Paul Seedhouse
      Pages 199-219

    3. The development of extended turns and storytelling in the Japanese oral proficiency interview

      • Waka Tominaga
      Pages 220-257

    4. Managing task uptake in oral proficiency interviews

      • Gabriele Kasper
      Pages 258-287

    5. Pursuing a relevant response in oral proficiency interview role plays

      • Yusuke Okada, Tim Greer
      Pages 288-310

    6. The situation with complication as a site for strategic competence

      • Steven J. Ross, Stephen P. O’Connell
      Pages 311-326

    7. Interactional competence and the dynamic assessment of L2 pragmatic abilities

      • Rémi A. van Compernolle
      Pages 327-353

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 355-366
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About this book

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.

Reviews

"This is a timely and well-organized collection that will be of interest to students and scholars of applied linguistics, SLA, language assessment, and pragmatics. The editors are well known and respected in their fields and they have assembled a stable of distinguished contributors to share the latest research on the assessment of pragmatic competence in a second language." - Richard F. Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Maryland, USA

    Steven J. Ross

  • University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, USA

    Gabriele Kasper

About the editors

James Dean ('JD') Brown, University of Hawai'i at Manoa and National Foreign Languages Resource Center, Hawaii, USA Phillip Clark, Temple University, USA Rick Derrah, Temple University, USA Kirby Grabowski, Columbia University, USA Tim Greer, Kobe University, Japan Noriko Ishihara, Hosei University, Japan Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'i at M?noa, USA Stephen O'Connell, University of Maryland, USA Yusuke Okada, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Carsten Roever, University of Melbourne, Australia Steven J. Ross, University of Maryland, USA John Rylander, Temple University, USA Paul Seedhouse, Newcastle University, UK Waka Tominaga, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Soo Jung Youn, University of Hawai'i at M?noa, USA Rémi A. van Compernolle, Carnegie Mellon University, USA F. Scott Walters, Southern Connecticut State University, USA

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