Investigating Pragmatics In Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing

by Alcón Soler, Eva; Martínez-Flor, Alicia

• ISBN13: 9781847690852
• ISBN10: 1847690858
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-18
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

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 and focuses on different foreign languages. The book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.

Author Biography

Eva Alcón Soler, senior lecturer at University Jaume I, has been working on discourse and language learning since 1993. Her research has covered, among others, interlanguage pragmatics, lingua franca communication, interaction and second language acquisition. Her recent publications have focussed on intercultural language use and language learning and on learning pragmatics in foreign language contexts.Alicia Martínez-Flor is a lecturer in the Department of English Studies, Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, Spain, where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in EFL teaching methodology. As a result of her own learning process of the English language, she became interested in investigating the acquisition of pragmatic competence in foreign language contexts. Her research interests include second language acquisition and interlanguage pragmatics.

Table of Contents

Pragmatics in foreign language contexts	p. 3
Investigating how pragmatics can be learned in foreign language contexts
Language socialization theory and the acquisition of pragmatics in the foreign language classroom	p. 25
Talking with a classroom guest : opportunities for learning Japanese pragmatics	p. 45
Pragmatic performance : what are learners thinking?	p. 72
Learning pragmatics in content-based classrooms	p. 94
Computer-mediated learning of L2 pragmatics	p. 114
Investigating how pragmatics can be taught in foreign language contexts
Using translation to improve pragmatic competence	p. 135
Effects on pragmatic development through awareness-raising instruction : refusals by Japanese EFL learners	p. 153
Enhancing the pragmatic competence of non-native English-speaking teacher candidates (NNESTCs) in an EFL context	p. 178
Investigating how pragmatics can be tested in foreign language contexts
Investigating interlanguage pragmatic ability : what are we testing?	p. 201
Raters, functions, item types and the dependability of L2 pragmatics tests	p. 224
Rater, item and candidate effects in discourse completion tests : a FACETS approach	p. 249
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