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Direct linkWu, 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
Al-Gahtani, Saad; Roever, Carsten – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
This study examined the development of requests made by second language (L2) learners of Modern Standard Arabic at four levels of L2 ability. The study used longitudinal and cross-sectional data collection to investigate how learners' performance of requests developed over a five-month period and differed as a function of ability level. The…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Longitudinal Studies
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
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
Roever, Carsten – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2007
This study investigates differential item functioning (DIF) in a 36-item test of English as a Second Language pragmalinguistics, assessing 254 learners' knowledge of implicature, routines, and speech acts. Two common DIF techniques, the Mantel-Haenszel method and the standardization method, detected nine items functioning differentially for test…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Speech Acts, Second Languages, Pragmatics
Roever, Carsten – Language Testing, 2006
Despite increasing interest in interlanguage pragmatics research, research on assessment of this crucial area of second language competence still lags behind assessment of other aspects of learners' developing second language (L2) competence. This study describes the development and validation of a 36-item web-based test of ESL pragmalinguistics,…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Test Validity, Speech Acts, Interlanguage
