Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

“This is a timely and well-organized collection that will be of interest to students and scholars of applied linguistics, SLA, language assessment, and pragmatics. The editors are well known and respected in their fields and they have assembled a stable of distinguished contributors to share the latest research on the assessment of pragmatic competence in a second language.” – Richard F. Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US

James Dean (‘JD’) Brown, University of Hawai’i at Manoa and National Foreign Languages Resource Center, Hawaii, USA Phillip Clark, Temple University, USA Rick Derrah, Temple University, USA Kirby Grabowski, Columbia University, USA Tim Greer, Kobe University, Japan Noriko Ishihara, Hosei University, Japan Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai’i at M?noa, USA Stephen O’Connell, University of Maryland, USA Yusuke Okada, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Carsten Roever, University of Melbourne, Australia Steven J. Ross, University of Maryland, USA John Rylander, Temple University, USA Paul Seedhouse, Newcastle University, UK Waka Tominaga, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Soo Jung Youn, University of Hawai’i at M?noa, USA Rémi A. van Compernolle, Carnegie Mellon University, USA F. Scott Walters, Southern Connecticut State University, USA