
Testing ESL Sociopragmatics
Development and Validation of a Web-based Test Battery
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 30. July 2014
Book
Hardback
182 pages
978-3-631-65379-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-65379-1 (9783631653791)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-04598-7
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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.
Content
Contents: Pragmatics - Interlanguage pragmatics - Sociopragmatics - Testing - Assessment - Validation - Web-based test - Argument-based validation - English as a second language.