Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

James Dean ('JD') Brown, University of Hawai'i at Manoa and National Foreign Languages Resource Center, Hawaii, USAPhillip Clark, Temple University, USARick Derrah, Temple University, USAKirby Grabowski, Columbia University, USATim Greer, Kobe University, JapanNoriko Ishihara, Hosei University, JapanGabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'i at M?noa, USAStephen O'Connell, University of Maryland, USAYusuke Okada, Ritsumeikan University, JapanCarsten Roever, University of Melbourne, AustraliaSteven J. Ross, University of Maryland, USAJohn Rylander, Temple University, USAPaul Seedhouse, Newcastle University, UKWaka Tominaga, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USASoo Jung Youn, University of Hawai'i at M?noa, USARémi A. van Compernolle, Carnegie Mellon University, USAF. Scott Walters, Southern Connecticut State University, USA

• 1. Assessing Second Language Pragmatics: Theoretical Perspectives; Gabriele Kasper and Steven J. Ross PART I: APPROACHES TO ASSESSING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE Introduction to Part I; Steven J. Ross 2. Testing Implicature under Operational Conditions; Carsten Roever 3. A Video-Based Method of Assessing Pragmatic Awareness; John Rylander, Phillip Clark an Richard Derrah 4. Item Difficulty and Heritage Language Learner Status in Pragmatic Tests for Korean as a Foreign Language; Soo Jung Youn and James Dean Brown 5. Teacher-based Assessment of L2 Japanese Pragmatics: Classroom Applications; Noriko Ishihara 6. Investigating the Construct Validity of a Role-Play Test Designed to Measure Grammatical and Pragmatic Knowledge at Multiple Proficiency Levels; Kirby Grabowski 7. Interfaces between a Discourse Completion Test and a Conversation-Analysis-Informed Test of L2 Pragmatic Competence; F. Scott Walters PART II: FROM PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE TO INTERACTIONAL COMPETENCE: INTERACTION IN ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEWS Introduction to Part II; Gabriele Kasper 8. Oral Proficiency Interviews as Varieties of Interaction; Paul Seedhouse 9. The Development of Extended Turns and Storytelling in the Japanese OPI; Waka Tominaga 10. Third Position Repair as a Practice for Task Management in Oral Proficiency Interviews; Gabriele Kasper 11. Pursuing a Relevant Response in OPI Role Plays; Yusuke Okada and Tim Greer 12. The Situation with Complication as a Site for Strategic Competence; Steven J. Ross and Stephen P. O'Connell 13. Interactional Competence and the Dynamic Assessment of L2 Pragmatic Abilities; Rémi A. van Compernolle

"This is a timely and well-organized collection that will be of interest to students and scholars of applied linguistics, SLA, language assessment, and pragmatics. The editors are well known and respected in their fields and they have assembled a stable of distinguished contributors to share the latest research on the assessment of pragmatic competence in a second language." - Richard F. Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US