Investigating pragmatics in foreign language learning, teaching and testing / edited by Eva Alcón Soler and Alicia Martínez-Flor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alcón Soler, Eva.

Martínez Flor, Alicia.

Series:

Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England) ; 30.

Second language acquisition ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Pragmatics--Study and teaching.

Pragmatics.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

The Contributors

Preface

1. Pragmatics in Foreign Language Contexts

2. Language Socialization Theory and the Acquisition of Pragmatics in the Foreign Language Classroom

3. Talking with a Classroom Guest: Opportunities for Learning Japanese Pragmatics

4. Pragmatic Performance: What are Learners Thinking?

5. Learning Pragmatics in Content-based Classrooms

6. Computer-mediated Learning of L2 Pragmatics

7. Using Translation to Improve Pragmatic Competence

8. Effects on Pragmatic Development Through Awareness-raising Instruction: Refusals by Japanese EFL Learners

9. Enhancing the Pragmatic Competence of Non-native English-speaking Teacher Candidates (NNESTCs) in an EFL Context

10. Investigating Interlanguage Pragmatic Ability: What Are We Testing?

11. Raters, Functions, Item Types and the Dependability of L2 Pragmatics Tests

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611878467

9781847699626

1847699626

9781281878465

1281878464

9781847690869

1847690866

OCLC:

476205501