Testing ESL Pragmatics: Development and Validation of a Web-Based Assessment Battery

By: Röver, Carsten

Although second language learners' pragmatic competence (their ability to use language in context) is an essential part of their general communicative competence, it has not been a part of second language tests. This book helps fill this gap by describing the development and validation of a web-based test of ESL pragmalinguistics. The instrument assesses learners' knowledge of routine formulae, speech acts, and implicature in 36 multiple-choice and brief-response items. The test's quantitative and qualitative validation with 300 learners showed high reliability and provided strong evidence of the instrument's construct validity. Its web-based format makes it easy to administer and score. The book ends with a discussion of future research directions in assessing second language pragmatics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631528361
• ISBN13: 9783631528365
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.2"