Testing ESL Pragmatics

The Author: Carsten Röver is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, School of Languages, at the University of Melbourne. He did his Erstes Staatsexamen in TESOL and Psychology at the University of Duisburg, and earned his Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He has worked in test validation at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ, and served as a consultant at the Center for the Advanced Study of Language at the University of Maryland.

• Contents: Interlanguage pragmatics – Second language assessment and web-based testing – Assessment of second language pragmatics – Quantitative validation of a test of ESL pragmatics: group comparisons, correlational techniques, IRT – Qualitative validation with verbal protocols – Threats to construct validity – Future research in testing L2 pragmatic competence.