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Developing a Pragmatics Test for Chinese EFL Learners
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Liu, Jianda – Language Testing, 2007
Pragmatic proficiency has been incorporated in the EFL teaching and testing syllabi in China, but the corresponding tests still focus on linguistic competence. The gap between the teaching and testing is mainly due to the lack of generally accepted measures of communicative abilities such as pragmatic competence. This study developed a…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Speech Acts, Testing, Foreign Countries