Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

by Ross, Steven; Kasper, Gabriele

• ISBN13: 9781137352132
• ISBN10: 1137352132
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-11-29
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume is 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, the first section of the book examines the reception and production of speech acts through a variety of assessment methods and a range of quantitative and qualitative analyses. The second section investigates interviewer and candidate interaction in different forms of oral proficiency interview.

Author Biography

Steven J. Ross is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland, USA.

Gabriele Kasper is Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.

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; Rémi A. van Compernolle