Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing

Edited by Dr. Eva Alcón Soler, Alicia Martínez-Flor

Publication date:

18 July 2008

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781847690852

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings. The number and variety of languages involved both as the first language (e.g. English, Finnish, Iranian, Spanish, Japanese) as well as the target foreign language (e.g. English, French, German, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish) makes the volume specially attractive for language educators in different sociocultural foreign language contexts. Additionally, the different approaches adopted by the researchers participating in this volume, such as information processing, sociocultural, language socialization, computer-mediated or conversation analysis should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.

Amy Snyder Ohta: Preface

Introduction

1. Pragmatics in Foreign Language Contexts - Eva Alcón Soler and Alicia Martínez-Flor

Part 1: Investigating how Pragmatics can be Learned in Foreign Language Contexts

2. Language Socialization Theory and the Acquisition of Pragmatics in the Foreign Language Classroom - Margaret A. DuFon

3. Talking with a Classroom Guest: Opportunities for Learning Japanese Pragmatics - Yumiko Tateyama and Gabriele Kasper

4. Pragmatic Performance: What are Learners Thinking? - Tim Hassall

5. Learning Pragmatics in Content-Based Classrooms - Tarja Nikula

6. Computer-Mediated Learning of L2 Pragmatics - Marta Gonzalez-Lloret

Part 2: Investigating how Pragmatics can be Taught in Foreign Language Contexts

7. Using Translation to Improve Pragmatic Competence - Juliane House

8. Effects on Pragmatic Development through Awareness-Raising Instruction: Refusals by Japanese EFL Learners - Sachiko Kondo

9. Enhancing the Pragmatic Competence of Non-Native English-Speaking Teacher Candidates (NNESTCs) in an EFL Context - Zohreh R. Eslami and Abbass Eslami-Rasekh

Part 3: Investigating how Pragmatics can be Tested in Foreign Language Contexts

10. Investigating Interlanguage Pragmatic Ability: What are we Testing? - Sayoko Yamashita

11. Raters, Functions, Item Types, and the Dependability of L2 Pragmatics Tests - James Dean Brown

12. Rater, Item, and Candidate Effects in Discourse Completion Tests: A FACETS Approach - Carsten Roever

This book is a rich source of knowledge and inspiration for beginner and more advanced researchers, contributes to the development of the multilingual field of interlanguage pragmatics and provides valuable pedagogical implications for language teachers in the foreign language classroom.