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Informationen zum Autor Eva Alcón Soler, senior lecturer at University Jaume I, has been working on discourse and language learning since 1993. Her research has covered, among others, interlanguage pragmatics, lingua franca communication, interaction and second language acquisition. Her recent publications have focussed on intercultural language use and language learning and on learning pragmatics in foreign language contexts. Alicia Martínez-Flor is a lecturer in the Department of English Studies, Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, Spain, where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in EFL teaching methodology. As a result of her own learning process of the English language, she became interested in investigating the acquisition of pragmatic competence in foreign language contexts. Her research interests include second language acquisition and interlanguage pragmatics. Klappentext The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. It brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings and focuses on different foreign languages. Zusammenfassung The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning! teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. It brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings and focuses on different foreign languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAmy Snyder Ohta (University of Washington) Introduction 1. Pragmatics in Foreign Language Contexts Eva Alcon Soler and Alicia Martinez-Flor(Universitat Jaume I Castellon! Spain)Part 1 Investigating how Pragmatics can be learned in Foreign Language Contexts 2. Language Socialization Theory and the Acquisition of Pragmatics in the Foreign Language Classroom Margaret A. DuFon (California State University-Chico!USA) 3. Talking with a Classroom Guest: Opportunities for Learning Japanese PragmaticsYumiko Tateyama and Gabriele Kasper(University of Hawai'i at Manoa! USA) 4. Pragmatic Performance: What are Learners Thinking? Tim Hassall (The Australian National University) 5. Learning Pragmatics in Content-Based ClassroomsTarja Nikula (University of Jyvaskyla! Finland) 6. Computer-Mediated Learning of l 2 Pragmatics Marta G�nzalez-Lloret (University of Hawai'i! Manoa!USA)Part 2 Investigating how Pragmatics can be taught in Foreign Language Contexts 7. Using Translation to Improve Pragmatic Competence Juliane House (Universitaet Hamburg! Germany) 8. Effects on Pragmatic Development through Awareness-Raising Instruction: Refusals by Japanese EFL LearnersSachiko Kondo (Sophia Junior College! Japan) 9. Enhancing the Pragmatic Competence of Non-Native English-Speaking Teacher Candidates (NNESTCs) in an EFL Context Zohreh R. Eslami (College of Education! College Station! Texas! USA) and Abbass Eslami-Rasekh (Esfahan University! Iran)Part 3 Investigating how Pragmatics can be tested in Foreign Language Contexts 10. Investigating Interlanguage Pragmatic Ability: What are we Testing? Sayoko Yamashita (Tokyo Medical and Dental University! Japan) 11. Raters! Functions! Item Types! and the Dependability of l 2 Pragmatics Tests James Dean Brown (University of Hawai'i at Manoa! USA) 12. Rater! Item! and Candidate Effects in Discourse Completion Tests: A FACETS ApproachCarsten Roever (The University of Melbourne! Australia) ...
