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: S. Ross
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/29/2013
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781137003515

About the Author
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