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Beaudrie, Sara; Amezcua, Angelica; Loza, Sergio – Language Testing, 2019
Critical language awareness (CLA) is increasingly identified as a central component of the Spanish heritage language (SHL) classroom (Leeman, 2005; Martínez, 2003; among others). As a minority language, SHL is subject to sociopolitical, cultural, and economic forces that devalue its status. It is devalued in the eyes of the public, as a legitimate…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Heritage Education, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Walters, F. Scott – Language Testing, 2007
Speech act theory-based, second language pragmatics testing (SLPT) poses problems for validation due to a lack of correspondence with empirical conversational data. Since conversation analysis (CA) provides a richer and more accurate account of language behavior, it may be preferred as a basis for SLPT development. However, applying CA methodology…
Descriptors: Inferences, Testing, Speech Acts, Language Tests