Measuring Second Language Pragmatic Competence

Author : S. Ross,G. Kasper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137003522

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Assessing Second Language Pragmatics by S. Ross,G. Kasper Pdf

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.

Author : Rod Ellis,Carsten Roever,Natsuko Shintani,Yan Zhu
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800417755

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Measuring Second Language Pragmatic Competence by Rod Ellis,Carsten Roever,Natsuko Shintani,Yan Zhu Pdf

Taking a psycholinguistic perspective, this book investigates how second language (L2) learners’ pragmatic abilities in English can be measured. It complements and extends earlier work on the testing of implicit and explicit grammar. The authors present a set of tests they developed using both well-established methods of measuring pragmatic knowledge (e.g. a Metapragmatic Knowledge Test and role plays) and more original tests (e.g. an Irony Test and an Elicited Imitation Test). They explain the development of the tests and report the results of their work with native speakers of English and Chinese and Japanese L2 learners. A confirmatory factor analysis lends support to the theoretical basis of the tests. The authors also report studies that explored the use of the tests to investigate L2 linguistic proficiency, study abroad and formal instruction. In concluding, they consider the strengths and limitations of the tests and propose some directions for future research.

Author : Arline Burgmeier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780194200554

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Second Language Pragmatics by Arline Burgmeier Pdf

Inside Reading Second Edition is a five-level academic reading series that develops students’ reading skills and teaches key academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List.

Author : Jianda Liu
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0820498114

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Measuring Interlanguage Pragmatic Knowledge of EFL Learners by Jianda Liu Pdf

Pragmatic competence is an integral and indispensable component of overall language competence. Omitting the pragmatic dimension from language assessment is, therefore, quite unfortunate. This book describes the development and validation of three test methods designed to test the interlanguage pragmatic knowledge of EFL learners. Altogether 413 subjects participated in the development of the tests. Results showed that all the three methods investigated had measured learners' interlanguage pragmatic knowledge. Quantitative analyses showed that the tests tapped the intended construct and the test methods measured a similar construct. Analyses of verbal reports yielded results which supported the quantitative analyses and revealed that the construct-relevant knowledge was involved in the test takers' cognitive activities. This book ends with some pedagogical implications of this study and directions for further research.

Author : Naoko Taguchi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110218558

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Pragmatic Competence by Naoko Taguchi Pdf

In the disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA), the study of pragmatic competence has been driven by several fundamental questions: What does it mean to become pragmatically competent in a second language (L2)? How can we examine pragmatic competence to make inference of its development among L2 learners? In what ways do research findings inform teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence? This book explores these key issues in Japanese as a second/foreign language. The book has three sections. The first section offers a general overview and historical sketch of the study of Japanese pragmatics and its influence on Japanese pedagogy and curriculum. The overview chapter is followed by eight empirical findings, each dealing with phenomena that are significant in Japanese pragmatics. They target selected features of Japanese pragmatics and investigate the learners' use of them as an indicator of their pragmatic competence. The target pragmatic features are wide-ranging, among them honorifics, speech style, sentence final particles, speech acts of various types, and indirect expressions. Each study explicitly prompts the connection between pragmalinguistics (linguistic forms available to perform language functions) and sociopragmatics (norms that determine appropriate use of the forms) in Japanese. By documenting the understanding and use of them among learners of Japanese spanning multiple levels and time durations, this book offers insight about the nature and development of pragmatic competence, as well as implications for the learning and teaching of Japanese pragmatics. The last section presents a critical reflection on the eight empirical papers and prompts a discussion of the practice of Japanese pragmatics research.

Author : Timothy Francis McNamara
Publisher : Addison Wesley Longman
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCSC:32106011378798

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Measuring Second Language Performance by Timothy Francis McNamara Pdf

The 'performance test' has emerged as the central concept around language testing. McNamara examines recent developments and provides an important contribution to the ongoing debate.

Author : Carsten Roever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429522888

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Teaching and Testing Second Language Pragmatics and Interaction by Carsten Roever Pdf

Pragmatic ability is crucial for second language learners to communicate appropriately and effectively; however, pragmatics is underemphasized in language teaching and testing. This book remedies that situation by connecting theory, empirical research, and practical curricular suggestions on pragmatics for learners of different proficiency levels: It surveys the field comprehensively and, with useful tasks and activities, offers rich guidance for teaching and testing L2 pragmatics. Mainly referring to pragmatics of English and with relevant examples from multiple languages, it is an invaluable resource for practicing teachers, graduate students, and researchers in language pedagogy and assessment.

Author : Jonathan Culpeper,Alison Mackey,Naoko Taguchi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317432951

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Second Language Pragmatics by Jonathan Culpeper,Alison Mackey,Naoko Taguchi Pdf

Second Language Pragmatics: From Theory to Research aims to reinvigorate this field, pointing the way forward to new methodologies that can drive, or be driven by, new theoretical developments. With a unique combination of leading international expertise in general pragmatics, L2 pragmatics, and research methodology, the authors describe in detail the methods, including the most recent techniques, by which pragmatics of all types can be pursued in L2 contexts. This volume argues that L2 pragmatics research needs to expand from its initial base by drawing from a wider range of sources, such as Corpus Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. Clear, accessible, and practical, Second Language Pragmatics will be valuable to novice and seasoned researchers alike in second language pragmatics, general pragmatics, and second language acquisition courses.

Author : Eva Alcón Soler,Alicia Martínez-Flor
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847699626

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Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing by Eva Alcón Soler,Alicia Martínez-Flor Pdf

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings. The number and variety of languages involved both as the first language (e.g. English, Finnish, Iranian, Spanish, Japanese) as well as the target foreign language (e.g. English, French, German, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish) makes the volume specially attractive for language educators in different sociocultural foreign language contexts. Additionally, the different approaches adopted by the researchers participating in this volume, such as information processing, sociocultural, language socialization, computer-mediated or conversation analysis should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.

Author : Naoko Taguchi
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847696083

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Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Competence by Naoko Taguchi Pdf

This book describes second language learners? development of pragmatic competence - the appropriate language use in a social context. It reveals patterns of development across different aspects of pragmatic abilities measured over one year and presents rich descriptions of participants? experiences and the individual characteristics that shaped their developmental trajectories.

Author : Pascale Leclercq,Amanda Edmonds,Heather Hilton
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783092284

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Measuring L2 Proficiency by Pascale Leclercq,Amanda Edmonds,Heather Hilton Pdf

This volume brings together concrete ideas on identifying and measuring second language (L2) proficiency from different branches of SLA. The chapters introduce a range of tools for the evaluation of learners' language level with respect to both productive and receptive skills and provide a variety of answers to the question of how to assess L2 proficiency in a valid, reliable and practical manner.

Author : Elly Ifantidou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270375

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Pragmatic Competence and Relevance by Elly Ifantidou Pdf

This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly, pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by distinct criteria and validated testing measures. More importantly, genuine pragmatic inference is elicited in contexts of online interpretation where figurative speech plays a central role. Genre-specific discourse which occurs in editorials and news reports serves as a natural testbed for examining the role of advanced mind-reading abilities in developing pragmatic competence. Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory accommodates the findings of empirical assessment and yields new insights in the cognitive procedures activated during interpretation. The comprehensive theoretical and methodological treatment of pragmatic competence makes this book of interest to researchers and students in pragmatics, L2 theory and applications, genre studies, and to those concerned with the cognitive underpinnings of communication in L2.

Author : Anne Barron
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027253507

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Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics by Anne Barron Pdf

This study reports on an investigation designed to, in some way, meet the need for acquistition research in L2 pragmatics - in particular in the form of longitudinal studies - and also to meet the need for research into the acquisition of L2 pragmatic competence in German. Specifically, it concerns a longitudinal study in which the development of the L2 pragmatic competence of a group of 32 Irish learners of German is investigated over ten months spent studying in the target speech community, Germany. The study is anchored in the field of interlanguage pragmatics, and the approach taken is speech-act based - interest focusing on productions of requests, offers and refusals of offers. The study also draws on research from discourse analysis in the investigation of offer-refusal of offer exchanges. The objective of this study was to record any developments - whether towards or away form the L2 norm - in the L2 pragmatic competence of the current group of learners over time spent in the target community.

Author : Paul A. Malovrh,Alessandro G. Benati
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119261629

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The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition by Paul A. Malovrh,Alessandro G. Benati Pdf

A comprehensive, current review of the research and approaches to advanced proficiency in second language acquisition The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition offers an overview of the most recent and scientific-based research concerning higher proficiency in second language acquisition (SLA). With contributions from an international team of experts in the field, the Handbook presents several theoretical approaches to SLA and offers an examination of advanced proficiency from the viewpoint of various contexts and dimensions of second language performance. The authors also review linguistic phenomena among advanced learners through the lens of phonology and grammar development. Comprehensive in scope, this book provides an overview of advanced proficiency grounded in socially-relevant domains of second language acquisition including discourse, reading, genre-based writing, and pragmatic competence. The authoritative volume brings together the theoretical accounts of advanced language use combined with solid empirical research. Includes contributions from an international collection of noted scholars in the field of second language acquisition Offers a variety of theoretical approaches to SLA Contains information on the most recent empirical research that contributes to an understanding of SLA Describes performance phenomena according to multiple approaches to SLA Written for scholars, students and linguists, The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive text that offers the most recent developments in the study of advanced proficiency in the acquisition of a second language.

Author : Thom Hudson,Emily Detmer,J. D. Brown
Publisher : Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0824814630

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A Framework for Testing Cross-cultural Pragmatics by Thom Hudson,Emily Detmer,J. D. Brown Pdf