The monograph sets out to provide a concise account of testing in the field of second language pragmatics together with some background on the domain of pragmatics. With ever increasing interest among the scholars to research pragmatics and long after they had investigated the teachability of second language pragmatics commonly known as interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) (Golato, 2003; Cohen, 2008), attention was given to testing pragmatics. ILP examines how nonnative speakers comprehend and produce action in the second language and investigates how language learners develop the ability to...

The present study aimed to examine the influence of response format on the reliability and validity of the tests in question. To this end, the grammaticality judgment (GJ) test developed by Gass (1994) was selected as the instrument of the study which was manipulated in terms of the response format while the original items remained intact. Thus, a multiple-choice GJ test (MCGJT) was constructed to be compared with the traditional form, i.e., the dichotomous type (DGJT). In an interval of a month, the two tests were administered to a group of 110 engineering-major BS students. The results...