Using a corpus in creating and evaluating a DCT

Hashimoto, Brett; Nelson, Kyra

doi:10.1075/ap.19009.has

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“…Rockey, Tiegs, and Fernández (2020) used the program FlipGrid to deliver a video prompt and video‐recorded participants’ nonverbal behaviors in request‐making. Finally, Hashimoto and Nelson (2020) created a platform simulating Yahoo Answers! to elicit advice‐giving.…”

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Immersive Virtual Reality for Pragmatics Task Development

Taguchi

2021

TESOL Quarterly

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This study intends to contribute to the methodological debate into L2 pragmatics research by examining the usability of immersive virtual reality (VR) for developing a pragmatics task. The study compared participants’ speech act performance between two closed role‐play tasks using different mediums: computer‐based and VR‐based. Sixty‐two native and nonnative speakers of English completed both tasks eliciting speech acts (requests, refusals, and opinions). The impact of task medium was assessed on oral fluency and use of speech act strategies. Both groups spoke more slowly and used more modification devices in the VR‐based speech acts; However, the directness level of the main speech act strategies was similar between the two task mediums. In the speech act situations involving a large social distance, unequal power relationship and a high degree of imposition, speech rates were slower and the use of modifications was greater than those involving a small social distance, equal power relationship and a low degree of imposition. While the native speaker group used fewer direct strategies in the former situation type regardless the task medium, the nonnative speaker group was less direct in the former situation type in the VR condition only.

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Immersive Virtual Reality for Pragmatics Task Development

Taguchi

2021

TESOL Quarterly

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“…While the primary contribution of CCSARP is in the field of contrastive pragmatics, its impact (in terms of replicability) extends to the field of L2 pragmatics. The DCT and coding framework have been adopted by a number of researchers who wish to evaluate L2 learners' speech act strategies and make a judgement about their pragmatic development (for a recent innovation of DCT, see Hashimoto and Nelson, 2020). The judgement about speech act development is often made by comparing learners' strategies with those of native speakers' strategies (baseline data).…”

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Contrastive Pragmatics and Second Language (L2) Pragmatics: Approaches to Assessing L2 Speech Act Production

Taguchi

2020

Contrastive Pragmatics

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This state-of-the-art paper discusses common approaches to the assessment of pragmatic competence. Two approaches have dominated the assessment practice in the field of second language (L2) pragmatics. One approach, rooted in the tradition of contrastive pragmatics, involves comparing and contrasting L2 learners’ pragmalinguistic forms with those of native speakers to determine whether L2 forms approximate native speaker forms. The other approach, rooted in the tradition of performance-based assessment, involves using a rating scale to evaluate L2 pragmatic performance based on multiple criteria (e.g., clarity of intention, formality level of expressions, and interaction abilities). Focusing on the area of speech act assessment, this paper presents an overview of these two approaches, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. By doing so, the paper intends to illustrate the interface between contrastive pragmatics and L2 pragmatics. The paper concludes with critical insights in terms of what is missing in these approaches under the current trend of globalization and intercultural communication.

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“…The book draws on the CCOT and includes a number of studies that are relevant to SLA and assessment (Crawford, forthcoming). Finally, Brett Hashimoto and Kyra Nelson (2020) have applied the corpus linguistics approach to pursue validity evidence of a common research instrument in L2 pragmatics called the discourse completion test (DCT). They analyzed features of advice-giving expressions using the Q+A corpus (Baker & Egbert, 2016) and compared the features against those elicited from 33 participants using a DCT.…”

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confidence: 99%