… most current productive testing instruments in interlanguage pragmatics has been criticized
for … paper reviews existing tests and argues for a discursive re-orientation of pragmatics tests. …

… language testing research. However, there are only few tests which explicitly assess pragmatic
abilities, and none of them have had the impact of large-scale test batteries like TOEFL or …

… in language testing. This may be due to the relative novelty of interlanguage pragmatics as
… the difficulty of assessing pragmatics, which by its very nature requires that tests establish a …

… of second language pragmatics that arises from the highly contextualized or social nature
of what is intended to be tested. If the purpose of assessing L2 pragmatics is to test L2 use in …

… The present study replicated Liu’s (2007) study on validating a multiple-choice discourse
completion test (MCDCT) for measuring second language (L2) pragmatics. In order to …

… How to test pragmatics learning has been regarded in the second part … testing learner's
pragmatic proficiency and addresses some important practices in testing this aspect in EFL/ESL …

… test and a pre-test on pragmatic knowledge. The participants were then assigned into two
groups, experimental and comparison. The experimental group received four hours of direct …

… the role of language proficiency in pragmatic performance in this article. … ESL instruction in
Saudi Arabia, but was deemed to have too little proficiency to benefit from taking an IELTS test…

… The gap between the teaching and testing is mainly due to … as pragmatic competence. This
study developed a multiple-choice discourse completion test (MDCT) to assess the pragmatic …

… test and a pre-test on pragmatic knowledge. The participants were then assigned into two
groups, experimental and comparison. The experimental group received four hours of direct …