Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

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