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Testing ESL Sociopragmatics: Development and Validation of a Web-based Test Battery
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Testing ESL Sociopragmatics: Development and Validation of a Web-based Test Battery
Current price: $71.05


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Testing ESL Sociopragmatics: Development and Validation of a Web-based Test Battery
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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.