Assessing Second Language Pragmatics (Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1137352132 ISBN 13: 9781137352132

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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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

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137352132
• ISBN 13: 9781137352132
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 381
• Editor: Ross S., Kasper G.