Dynamic Assessment and Interlanguage Pragmatics

ISBN-13: 9783659126024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 164 str.

Zia Tajeddin; Minoo Alemi; Sarah Pakzadian

Opis

This book reports on a study aimed at exploring the advantage of Dynamic Assessment as an instructional instrument over Non-dynamic (traditional) Assessment and Non-assessment approaches in the pragmatic production of EFL learners. The target speech acts of apology, complaint, and compliment were chosen for the study. Results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between the DA group and the other two groups of NDA and NA, which was due to the positive effects of Dynamic Assessment on learning these pragmatic features.

O autorze

Zia Tajeddin is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran. Minoo Alemi holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba'i University and is a faculty member of Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Sarah Pakzadian is a Ph.D. student of TEFL at Alzahra University, Iran.