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Peer reviewedOlshtain, Elite; Blum-Kulka, Shoshana – Language Testing, 1985
Describes several elicitation techniques used for speech act data collection and analysis and discusses their suitability in testing a learner's acquisition of the rules of language use. Argues that the development of testing instruments for communicative competence cannot be divorced from the field of cross-cultural pragmatics. (SED)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cross Cultural Studies, Language Tests, Language Usage
