Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

1. Assessing second language pragmatics: An overview and introductions
Gabriele Kasper, Steven J. Ross

Part I. Approaches to Assessing Pragmatic Competence

2. Testing implicature under operational conditions
Carsten Roever

3. A video-based method of assessing pragmatic awareness
John Rylander, Phillip Clark, Richard Derrah

4. Item difficulty and heritage language learner status in pragmatic tests for Korean as a foreign language
Soo Jung Youn, James Dean Brown

5. Teacher-based assessment of L2 Japanese pragmatics: Classroom applications
Noriko Ishihara

6. Investigating the construct validity of a role-play test designed to measure grammatical and pragmatic knowledge at multiple proficiency levels
Kirby Grabowski

7. Interfaces between a discourse completion test and a conversation analysis-informed test of L2 pragmatic competence
F. Scott Walters

Part II. From Pragmatic Competence to Interactional Competence: Interaction in Oral Proficiency Interviews

8. Oral proficiency interviews as varieties of interaction
Paul Seedhouse

9. The development of extended turns and storytelling in the Japanese oral proficiency interview
Waka Tominaga

10. Managing task uptake in oral proficiency interviews
Gabriele Kasper

11. Pursuing a relevant response in oral proficiency interview role plays
Yusuke Okada, Tim Greer

12. The situation with complication as a site for strategic competence
Steven J. Ross, Stephen P. O’Connell

13. Interactional competence and the dynamic assessment of L2 pragmatic abilities
Rémi A. Compernolle

Keywords: Education, Language Teaching, Linguistics, general, Language Education, Pragmatics