Measuring Second Language Pragmatic Competence: A Psycholinguistic Perspective (Second Language Acquisition, 166) - Hardcover

Ellis, Rod; Roever, Carsten; Shintani, Natsuko

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 180041773X ISBN 13: 9781800417731

Verlag: Multilingual Matters, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Rod Ellis is an applied linguist who has published widely on second language acquisition and task-based language learning. He is currently a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Education, Curtin University, Australia and an elected fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is a past recipient of the Kenneth W. Mildenberger and Duke of Edinburgh prizes.

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• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 180041773X
• ISBN 13: 9781800417731
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
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