Object's details: Reverse discourse completion task as an assessment tool for intercultural competence

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Title:
Reverse discourse completion task as an assessment tool for intercultural competence
Creator:
Kanik, Mehmet
Description:
This paper proposes a prototypic assessment tool for intercultural communicative competence. Because traditional discourse completion tasks (DCTs) focus on illocutionary competence rather than sociolinguistic competence, a modified version of a DCT was created to target sociolinguistic competence. The modified DCT employs speech acts as prompts and asks respondents to write about a situation in which a given speech act would be appropriate. This new tool is named a reverse discourse completion task (R-DCT). The task was given to learners of Turkish as a second language. Data from 12 participants were analyzed for their provision of sociopragmatic factors such as power, distance and imposition and also with respect to whether the situation was relevant to a given speech act. Responses from the participants show that R-DCTs can be used to assess intercultural competence as they help reveal respondents’ knowledge of sociolinguistic context in which a given speech act may be appropriate. By removing the need for comparison with native speaker data and the limitations that emerge from the lack of linguistic formula at respondents’ disposal, R-DCT is a promising elicitation task to assess sociolinguistic competence, an integral part of Byram’s (1997) model of intercultural communicative competence.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
Prawa autorskie (c) 2016 Mehmet Kanik
Date:
2013.10.01
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
English
Source:
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Vol. 3 No. 4 (2013); 621-644;
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Tom 3 Nr 4 (2013); 621-644;
2084-1965;
2083-5205
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/5028/5112
Subject:
discourse completion task;
reverse discourse completion task;
intercultural competence;
sociolinguistic competence
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/5028
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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