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Autor/in | Roever, Carsten |
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Titel | Testing of Second Language Pragmatics: Past and Future |
Quelle | In: Language Testing, 28 (2011) 4, S.463-481 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0265-5322 |
DOI | 10.1177/0265532210394633 |
Schlagwörter | Speech Acts; Second Language Learning; Interlanguage; Testing; Native Speakers; Pragmatics; Language Tests; Guidelines; Scoring; Benchmarking; Construct Validity; Oral Language; Language Proficiency; Role Playing |
Abstract | Testing of second language pragmatic competence is an underexplored but growing area of second language assessment. Tests have focused on assessing learners' sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities but the speech act framework informing most current productive testing instruments in interlanguage pragmatics has been criticized for under-representing the construct. In particular, the assessment of learners' ability to produce extended monologic and dialogic discourse is a missing component in existing assessments. This paper reviews existing tests and argues for a discursive re-orientation of pragmatics tests. Suggestions for tasks and scoring approaches to assess discursive abilities while maintaining practicality are provided, and the problematicity of native speaker benchmarking is discussed. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |