Revisiting pragmatic tests in the FL context: Towards interactive tests to examine speech act performance

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Article: Revisiting pragmatic tests in the FL context: Towards interactive tests to examine speech act performance
Published: Jan 3, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/LanguageV.2015.7.5
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research methods, IDCTs, RPTs, apologies

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Vicent Beltrán Palanques
Universitat Jaume I
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3139-6629

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Vicent Beltrán Palanques
Universitat Jaume I, Spain


 


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The aim of this study is to explore the task effect of two different research methods, namely those of interactive discourse completion tasks/tests (IDCTs) and role-play tasks (RPTs). The two research methods employed in this study adopt an interactive approach that allows participants to freely interact not only in the oral mode but also in the written mode. This paper compares the apology strategies elicited by means of IDCTs and in RPTs in terms of strategy length, amount of strategies and classification of strategies across the two elicitation techniques. Results from this comparison will be presented and discussed, and pedagogical implications suggested.

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Beltrán Palanques, V. (2019). Revisiting pragmatic tests in the FL context: Towards interactive tests to examine speech act performance. Language Value, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.6035/LanguageV.2015.7.5
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