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.
Table of Content
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. Du Fon
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
About the author
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).
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