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

Carsten Rover,Rudiger Grotjahn,Gunther Sigott

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing
Country
United States
Published
1 January 2005
Pages
156
ISBN
9780820473437

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

Carsten Rover,Rudiger Grotjahn,Gunther Sigott

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.

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