TESTING ESL SOCIOPRAGMATICS by Carsten Roever, Catherine Elder, Catherine Elder ( 9783631653791 )

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TESTING ESL SOCIOPRAGMATICS
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A WEB-BASED TEST BATTERY

By:

Carsten Roever, Catherine Elder, Catherine Elder

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Publisher:

PETER LANG AG

Pub. date:

30 July, 2014

Series:

Language Testing and Evaluation 35

Pages:

182

Description:

This book describes the development and argument-based validation of a web-based test of second language pragmatics for learners of English. The test has a sociopragmatic orientation and strives for broad coverage of the construct by assessing metapragmatic judgment as well as the ability to co-construct discourse.

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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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Switzerland

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Peter Lang AG

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