語用論的英語定型表現知識測定のための誘出模倣テストの作成

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This study developed an elicited imitation test to assess Japanese EFL learners' knowledge of pragmatic routines, which was named the Pragmatic Routine Elicited Imitation Test (PREI Test). The advantage of acquiring pragmatic routines is claimed as “they provide low-level learners with a quick repertoire of target language resources, allowing them to outperform their competence” (Roever, Wang, & Brophy, 2014, p. 382). The procedure for developing the PREI Test is divided into six stages: (1) constructing a written discourse completion task, (2) collecting data from native speakers of English, (3) selecting targeted pragmatic routines, (4) comparing the targeted routines with speech act corpora, (5) writing head acts of four different speech acts using the targeted routines, (6) finalizing the PREI Test with the head acts. This paper will discuss possibilities and challenges for the PREI Test to be used to assess and teach the knowledge of pragmatic routines in EFL classrooms.