This book deals with intercultural pragmatics and how both nonnative teachers (NNTs) and
native teachers (NTs) may enhance their classroom instruction regarding target language …

This state-of-the-art paper discusses common approaches to the assessment of pragmatic
competence. Two approaches have dominated the assessment practice in the field of …

This article argues that testing in pragmatics has for too long relied on the same six
measures of pragmatics assessment introduced by Hudson, Detmer, and Brown (1992 …

Many studies have shed light on rater criteria for assessing the performance of language
skills (eg, Eckes, 2005). However, the interface between rater assess-ment and …

Pragmatics assessment literature provides little evidence of research on rater consistency
and bias. To address this underexplored topic, this study aimed to investigate whether a …

The article provides a rationale for assessing second language (L2) pragmatics in the
classroom and then looks at tasks to assess comprehension of speech acts. Next we look at …

The criteria by which raters judge pragmatic appropriateness of language learners' speech
acts are underexamined, especially when raters evaluate extended discourse. To shed …

Written Discourse Completion Task (WDCT) has been used in pragmatics tests to measure
EFL learners' interlanguage pragmatic knowledge. In a WDCT, the students give their …

Although there are studies on the pragmatic assessment, to date no research has been
done on native English raters' criteria for the assessment of EFL learners' pragmatic …

Over the last few decades, several aspects of pragmatic knowledge and its effects on
teaching and learning a second language (L2) have been explored in many studies …