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Wu, Jingxuan; Roever, Carsten – Modern Language Journal, 2021
This study investigates second language (L2) interactional competence in Mandarin Chinese, with a specific focus on dispreference organization in refusals. Twenty-eight L2 Chinese learners at 3 proficiency levels (A2, B1, and B2) and 10 native speakers each participated in 3 role plays. We found that learners at different levels clearly differed…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Preferences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Roever, Carsten – Language Testing, 2011
Testing of second language pragmatic competence is an underexplored but growing area of second language assessment. Tests have focused on assessing learners' sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities but the speech act framework informing most current productive testing instruments in interlanguage pragmatics has been criticized for…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Interlanguage, Testing