The Effect of Instruction on Japanese EFL Learners’ Pragmatic Routine Knowledge Using the Online Elicited Imitation Test (EIT) Module (65914)

Session Information: Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics
Session Chair: Maria-Isabel Mansilla

Friday, January 6, 2023 (11:20)
Session: Session 2
Room: 317A
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation

All presentation times are UTC-10 (Pacific/Honolulu)

This study investigates the effect of instruction of pragmatic routine on 27 Japanese university EFL learners using an online elicited imitation test (hereafter, EIT) and its teaching module developed by Oki (2022). The significance of acquiring formulaic sequences for L2 has been widely acknowledged (N. Ellis, 2012; Wray, 2002), and among them, the one conventionally used to convey specific meanings and functions in a speech community is called pragmatic routine (e.g., Bardovi-Harlig, 2008, 2012). Although there have been studies that developed tests to measure L2 learners’ pragmatic routine knowledge, these tests are specifically designed for the ESL context and used only for measurement. Since pragmatic routine is critically important for low-level learners because it will be their quick repertoire (Roever, Wang, & Brophy, 2014), measuring and teaching pragmatic routine in the EFL context is an essential challenge for language instructors. The EIT is a type of language test that requires test-takers to orally imitate a sentence with a target linguistic feature immediately after listening to it. To date, in the field of second language acquisition, researchers have developed numerous different types of tests to measure L2 proficiency. However, there are few EIT tests that measure the pragmatic knowledge of L2 learners. In this presentation, I will introduce the Pragmatic Routine Elicited Imitation Test (PREI Test), developed by Oki (2022), and will explain how it was used for measuring and teaching pragmatic routines for EFL learners.

Authors:
Nanaho Oki, Hokkaido Musashi Women's Junior College, Japan


About the Presenter(s)
Professor Nanaho Oki is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Hokkaido Musashi Women's Junior College in Japan

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Last updated: 2023-02-23 23:45:00