Pragmatic Assessment Flashcards
Thing we check in pragmatic language:
○ Conversation
○ Discourse management (entire conversational scene)
○ Narratives
Tools we use in Pragmatics
Pragmatic Protocol
Pragmatic observational measure
SOCI
Pragmatics in conversation…
○ Communicative intentions
○ Contextual variation
○ Register variation
○ Assessing presuppositional skill
In communicative intentions we check for:
Increased ability to monitor one’s own behavior to reason to relate events and ideas to each other
Method for communication intention
interview, free play, a peer interaction
we use context to decide how to say what we want to say
Contextual variation
we use information about our listeners
Register Variation
assessment of our audience’s state of background knowledge
Presupposition
makes it possible to make these kinds of changes
Theory of Mind
In assessing register variation we do…
role-play: ask students to express the same basic communicative intent in different contexts
Assessing presuppositional skill
Ask clients to describe a sequence of pictures, each of which changes by one detail
Ask clients to describe a sequence of pictures, each of which changes by one detail
Assessing presuppositional skill
concerned with ability to orchestrate turns and topics and to repair breakdowns
Discourse Management
rate school-aged children’s skill in peer conversations
POM
typically developing children’s scored 44
POM
