Alcón Soler / Martínez-Flor Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84769-962-6
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 30, 260 Seiten

Reihe: Second Language Acquisition

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings. The number and variety of languages involved both as the first language (e.g. English, Finnish, Iranian, Spanish, Japanese) as well as the target foreign language (e.g. English, French, German, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish) makes the volume specially attractive for language educators in different sociocultural foreign language contexts. Additionally, the different approaches adopted by the researchers participating in this volume, such as information processing, sociocultural, language socialization, computer-mediated or conversation analysis should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alcón Soler, Eva

Martínez-Flor, Alicia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Amy Snyder Ohta: Preface

Introduction

1. Pragmatics in Foreign Language Contexts - Eva Alcón Soler and Alicia Martínez-Flor

Part 1: Investigating how Pragmatics can be Learned in Foreign Language Contexts

2. Language Socialization Theory and the Acquisition of Pragmatics in the Foreign Language Classroom - Margaret A. DuFon

3. Talking with a Classroom Guest: Opportunities for Learning Japanese Pragmatics - Yumiko Tateyama and Gabriele Kasper

4. Pragmatic Performance: What are Learners Thinking? - Tim Hassall

5. Learning Pragmatics in Content-Based Classrooms - Tarja Nikula

6. Computer-Mediated Learning of L2 Pragmatics - Marta Gonzalez-Lloret

Part 2: Investigating how Pragmatics can be Taught in Foreign Language Contexts

7. Using Translation to Improve Pragmatic Competence - Juliane House

8. Effects on Pragmatic Development through Awareness-Raising Instruction: Refusals by Japanese EFL Learners - Sachiko Kondo

9. Enhancing the Pragmatic Competence of Non-Native English-Speaking Teacher Candidates (NNESTCs) in an EFL Context - Zohreh R. Eslami and Abbass Eslami-Rasekh

Part 3: Investigating how Pragmatics can be Tested in Foreign Language Contexts

10. Investigating Interlanguage Pragmatic Ability: What are we Testing? - Sayoko Yamashita

11. Raters, Functions, Item Types, and the Dependability of L2 Pragmatics Tests - James Dean Brown

12. Rater, Item, and Candidate Effects in Discourse Completion Tests: A FACETS Approach - Carsten Roever

Über Autor(innen)

Alcón Soler, Eva
Eva Alcón Soler, senior lecturer at University Jaume I, has been working on discourse and language learning since 1993. Her research has covered, among others, interlanguage pragmatics, lingua franca communication, interaction and second language acquisition. Her recent publications have focussed on intercultural language use and language learning and on learning pragmatics in foreign language contexts.

Martínez-Flor, Alicia
Alicia Martínez-Flor is a Senior Lecturer of English Applied Linguistics at Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). She is a member of LAELA (Lingüística Aplicada a l'Ensenyament de la Llengua Anglesa) research group at Universitat Jaume I, and an executive board member of ITAP (International Association for Teaching Pragmatics). Her main research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, instructional pragmatics, language teacher education in pragmatics, and foreign language learning and teaching. Her publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as System, Foreign Language Annals, ELT Journal and Language Teaching Research. She has co-edited the volumes ‘Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing’ (Multilingual Matters, 2008), ‘Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, Empirical and Methodological Issues’ (John Benjamins, 2010) and ‘L2 Pragmatics in Action: Teachers, Learners and the Teaching-Learning Interaction Process’ (John Benjamins, 2023).

Eva Alcón Soler, senior lecturer at University Jaume I, has been working on discourse and language learning since 1993. Her research has covered, among others, interlanguage pragmatics, lingua franca communication, interaction and second language acquisition. Her recent publications have focussed on intercultural language use and language learning and on learning pragmatics in foreign language contexts.

Alicia Martínez-Flor is a lecturer in the Department of English Studies, Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, Spain, where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in EFL teaching methodology. As a result of her own learning process of the English language, she became interested in investigating the acquisition of pragmatic competence in foreign language contexts. Her research interests include second language acquisition and interlanguage pragmatics.