Testing ESL Sociopragmatics

Name: Testing ESL Sociopragmatics
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Development and Validation of a Web-based Test Battery

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Language Testing and Evaluation

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Testing of second language pragmatics has grown as a research area but still suffers from a tension between construct coverage and practicality. In this book, the authors describe the development and validation of a web-based test of second language pragmatics for learners of English. The test has a sociopragmatic orientation and strives for a broad coverage of the construct by assessing learners’ metapragmatic judgments as well as their ability to co-construct discourse. To ensure practicality, the test is delivered online and is scored partially automatically and partially by human raters. We used the argument-based approach to validation, which showed that the test can support low-stakes decisions about learners’ knowledge of sociopragmatics in English.

Author Biography:

Carsten Roever is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Catriona Fraser holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Melbourne. Catherine Elder is the former director of the Language Testing Research Centre at the University of Melbourne.

Release date Australia

July 30th, 2014

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Professional & Vocational

Edition

New edition

Pages

182

Series

Language Testing and Evaluation

Dimensions

148x210x15

ISBN-13

9783631653791

Product ID

22632171

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