Measuring Second Language Pragmatic Competence : : A Psycholinguistic Perspective / / Rod Ellis, Carsten Roever, Natsuko Shintani, Yan Zhu.

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• VerfasserIn: Ellis, Rod,; Roever, Carsten,; Shintani, Natsuko,; Zhu, Yan,
• MitwirkendeR: Ellis, Rod,; Roever, Carsten,; Shintani, Natsuko,; Zhu, Yan,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition ; 166
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Extending earlier work on grammar, this book investigates the development of tests measuring second language learners’ implicit and explicit pragmatic abilities in English. It reports detailed analyses of the use of the tests with two groups of learners and in studies investigating study abroad and the effects of instruction.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part 1 Background -- Introduction -- 1 Tests of L2 Pragmatics: What Do They Assess? -- Part 2 The Development of the Tests -- Introduction -- 2 Introducing the Project: The Test Battery -- 3 The Metapragmatic Knowledge Test: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Japanese Learners -- 4 Evaluating the Social Variables Test -- 5 The Irony Test: A Study of Chinese Learners’ Ability to Comprehend Irony -- 6 The Elicited Imitation Test: An Exploratory Study of L2 Learners’ Knowledge of Hedging -- 7 The Monologic Role Play: A Genre-Based Approach to Measuring Pragmatic Ability -- 8 The Dialogic Role Play: A Discourse-Analytic Approach to Measuring Pragmatic Ability -- 9 Assessing Implicit and Explicit Pragmatic Competence: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis -- Part 3 Mediating Factors -- Introduction -- 10 Proficiency as an Individual Difference Variable -- 11 The Roles of Language Proficiency and Study Abroad in Japanese Students’ Receptive Pragmatic Competence -- 12 The Effect of Digital Explicit-Deductive Instruction on the Development of Explicit and Implicit Pragmatic Abilities -- Part 4 Conclusion -- Introduction -- 13 Retrospect and Prospect -- Appendices -- References -- Index