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Direct linkRoever, Carsten; Ikeda, Naoki – Language Testing, 2022
The overarching aim of the study is to explore the extent to which test takers' performances on monologic speaking tasks provide information about their interactional competence. This is an important concern from a test use perspective, as stakeholders tend to consider test scores as providing comprehensive information about all aspects of L2…
Descriptors: Scores, Language Tests, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Testing
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
Roever, Carsten; Al-Gahtani, Saad – ELT Journal, 2015
ESL learners can find it challenging to use English in a way that is pragmatically appropriate to the situation and interlocutor. In this article, we explore the impact of increased proficiency on learners' pragmatic performance. ESL learners in Australia at four proficiency levels completed three role plays, and we analysed how the learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Role Playing
Roever, Carsten; Al-Gahtani, Saad – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
Research in second language pragmatics is increasingly investigating the sequential organization of interaction and how it might be affected by second language learners' developing proficiency. In this paper, we are focusing on a specific aspect of request organization, namely multiple requests. Through data from natural interaction and role…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Discourse Analysis, Standard Spoken Usage, Speech Acts
Al-Gahtani, Saad; Roever, Carsten – Applied Linguistics, 2012
L2 requests in developmental pragmatics research are commonly investigated using non-interactive data collection techniques or sidelining the larger discourse sequence in which the request proper is embedded. This study takes a different approach to the study of L2 requests. In a cross-sectional design, we collected role play data from learners at…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Social Environment, Pragmatics, Language Proficiency
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
