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Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

S Ross editor G Kasper editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:29th Nov '13

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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.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.

"This is a timely and well-organized collection that will be of interest to students and scholars of applied linguistics, SLA, language assessment, and pragmatics. The editors are well known and respected in their fields and they have assembled a stable of distinguished contributors to share the latest research on the assessment of pragmatic competence in a second language." - Richard F. Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US

ISBN: 9781137003515

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 5808g

366 pages