Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional competencies, it examines the reception and production of speech acts through a variety of assessment methods and quantitative and qualitative analyses.

Author Biography

James Dean (‘JD’) Brown, University of Hawai’i at Manoa and National Foreign Languages Resource Center, Hawaii, USA

Phillip Clark, Temple University, USA
Rick Derrah, Temple University, USA
Kirby Grabowski, Columbia University, USA
Tim Greer, Kobe University, Japan

Noriko Ishihara, Hosei University, Japan
Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai’i at M?noa, USA
Stephen O’Connell, University of Maryland, USA
Yusuke Okada, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Carsten Roever, University of Melbourne, Australia

Steven J. Ross, University of Maryland, USA
John Rylander, Temple University, USA
Paul Seedhouse, Newcastle University, UK
Waka Tominaga, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Soo Jung Youn, University of Hawai’i at M?noa, USA
Rémi A. van Compernolle, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
F. Scott Walters, Southern Connecticut State University, USA