Task-based approaches to teaching and assessing pragmatics / edited by Naoko Taguchi, YouJin Kim.

Other author Taguchi, Naoko, 1967- editor.
Other author Kim, Youjin, editor.
Format Book
PublicationAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Descriptionx, 312 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Second language acquisition.
Language and languages--Study and teaching.
Task analysis in education.

SeriesTask-based language teaching: issues, research and practice (TBLT) ; volume 10
Task-based language teaching ; v. 10. ^A1278063
Contents Task-based approaches to teaching and assessing pragmatics : an overview / Naoko Taguchi & YouJin Kim -- Learning of Korean honorifics through collaborative tasks : comparing heritage and foreign language learners / Minkyung Kim, Hakyoon Lee & YouJin Kim -- Effects of task supported language teaching on learners' use and knowledge of el request mitigators / Eva Alcón-Soler -- Task complexity effects on interaction during a collaborative persuasive writing task : a conversation analytic perspective / María Pía Gomez-Laich & Naoko Taguchi -- Task modality effects on Spanish learners' interlanguage pragmatic development / Derek Reagan & Caroline Payant -- Developing pragmatic competence through tasks in EFL contexts : does proficiency play a role? / Mayya Levkina -- Independently measuring cognitive complexity in task design for interlanguage pragmatics development / Roger Gilabert & Júlia Barón -- Pragmatics, tasks, and technology : a synergy / Marta Gonzalez-Lloret & Lourdes Ortegas -- Task design and validity evidence for assessment of L2 pragmatics in interaction / Soo Jung Youn -- The effects of task type and L2 proficiency on discourse appropriacy in oral task performance / Monika Ekiert, Sofia Lampropoulou, Andrea Révész & Eivind Torgersen -- Assessing functional adequacy of L2 performance in a task-based approach / Folkert Kuiken & Ineke Vedder -- Pragmatics in task-based language assessment : opportunities and challenges / Veronika Timpe-Laughlin.
Abstract "This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by exploring how the teaching and assessment of pragmatics can be integrated into TBLT. The TBLT-pragmatics connection is illustrated in a variety of constructs (e.g., speech acts, honorifics, genres, interactional features), methods (e.g., quantitative, quasi-experimental, conversation analysis), and topics (e.g., instructed SLA, heritage language learning, technology-enhanced teaching, assessment, and discursive pragmatics). Chapters in this volume collectively demonstrate how the two fields can together advance the current practice of teaching language for socially-situated, real-world communicative needs"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Issued in other formOnline version: Task-based approaches to teaching and assessing pragmatics Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018] 9789027263957
LCCN 2018009336
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ISBNelectronic book

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