Detail Assessing Pragmatic Competence through DCT: a response to an everlasting issue   Oleh:  Aziz, E. Aminudin ; Muniroh, R. Dian D. Jenis: Article from Proceeding Dalam koleksi: Teflin International conference 2005 Topik: Pragmatic Competence; DTC Fulltext: Dian Muniroh + E. Aminudin Aziz Assessing Pragmatic Competen.pdf (76.98KB) Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: 420.7 TEF Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: 1    Booking Lihat Antrian Booking Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel One of the salient difficulties in assessing pragmatic competence of foreign language learners concerns the rigorous method for such an undertaking. Rather than converging to a compromise of agreement, many new issues and disputes arise. This is so because the evaluative instruments used to assess the competence are far from being valid: pragmatic competence is not measured by the right criteria so that this has resulted in much invalidity. For example, oral communication abilities are not assessed by using proper testing instruments. Neither is cultural/social competence measured by using appropriate tools. This paper aims to share an account of a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) as an instrument to assess learners’ language competence. It begins with the exploration of the possibility of using some methods that are currently used in assessing the so-called learners’ communicative competence. In turn, it offers an alternative to the assessments, i.e. using a DCT. Data for this paper was taken from various studies we have recently conducted at the Department of English Education, Faculty of Language and Arts Education UPI. The study involved students from various levels of competence and used various speech acts for modeling. These include speech acts of requesting, refusing, apologizing, and thanking. The studies found that pragmatic competence was well-assessed when a Discourse Completion Test was applied. It was not only able to obtain information about linguistic abilities but could also measure the level of cultural/social competence, which we believed as the key point constituting pragmatic/communicative competence. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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