خلاصة:
Following a thorough survey of the available literature and concentrating on the wax and wane of
testing pragmatic competence so far, the present study firstly is an attempt to develop a comprehensive test of
inter-language pragmatics mainly focusing on academic situations in the Iranian context. Secondly, the study
aims to investigate the criteria required for the selection of speech acts of academic situations. Reliability,
expert judgment validity, internal validity, and content validity of the test will be obtained through analyzing the
data gathered through administering the test to native and non-native participants. Various methods of
calculating reliability and validity of an MCDT employed in the present study could also pave the way for
further research in the domain of assessing inter-language pragmatics and developing more valid and reliable
tests. The present study findings could contribute to the fields of second language testing and assessment in
general and testing inter-language pragmatics in particular.
ملخص الجهاز:
"The Design and Analysis of Pragmatic Competence-based Assessments for Improving Linguistics Skills of EFL Learners Following a thorough survey of the available literature and concentrating on the wax and wane of testing pragmatic competence so far, the present study firstly is an attempt to develop a comprehensive test of inter-language pragmatics mainly focusing on academic situations in the Iranian context.
Pragmatics competence, assessing, linguistic ability Introduction As one of the most significant aspects lying in the second language teaching and learning process is to develop learners’ ability to communicate appropriately in a given target language and culture, language testing services then have focused on the tests which could measure the communicative ability or better say, pragmatic competence of the learners.
The present study firstly is an attempt to develop a test of inter-language pragmatics which mainly focuses on testing pragmatic competence of the second/foreign language learners in the academic situation in the Iranian context, and secondly to investigate criteria for the recognition of academic speech acts in the English language.
Purpose of the Study The present study basically is an attempt to develop a test of language proficiency which mainly focuses on testing inter-language pragmatic competence of the second / foreign language learners at the academic situation in the Iranian context.
Research Hypotheses The first research question is descriptive in nature and will be discussed through covering the related literature and running the Meta-analysis, therefore, the first question remained as follows: What are the specific criteria for the selection of speech acts of academic situations for the development of pragmatic tests?"