Assessing SECOND Language pragmatics
This workshop offers an introduction and some hands-on
practice for testing of second language pragmatics (language use in social
settings). It will first review the different constructs and components of
pragmatic competence in speech act pragmatics and discursive pragmatics. I will
also give a brief overview of current research in interlanguage / acquisitional
pragmatics. We will then look at some examples of pragmatics test tasks,
covering speech acts, routine formulae, implicature, speech styles, extended
social interaction, and testing of pragmatics in writing. Participants will
also design some tasks and try them out on each other.
Carsten Roever is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Discipline Chair of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. His research interests are learning and assessment of second language pragmatics, as well as language testing more generally and Conversation Analysis. He has published numerous journal articles, book chapters and three books, most notably “Language Testing: The social dimension” (2006) with Tim McNamara. He is co-editor of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics.
Carsten Roever is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Discipline Chair of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. His research interests are learning and assessment of second language pragmatics, as well as language testing more generally and Conversation Analysis. He has published numerous journal articles, book chapters and three books, most notably “Language Testing: The social dimension” (2006) with Tim McNamara. He is co-editor of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics.