%0 Book
%A Carsten Roever
%A Catriona Fraser
%A Catherine Elder
%D 2014
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783653045987
%T Testing ESL Sociopragmatics
%B Development and Validation of a Web-based Test Battery
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-04598-7
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1048637
%X 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.
%K Zweitsprache, Soziopragmatik, Interimssprache, Metapragmatik
%G English