Steven John Ross
List of John Benjamins publications in which Steven John Ross is involved.
2025 Ontological realism as a validity criterion in second-language strategic competence assessment Applied Pragmatics 7:1, pp. 56–81 | Article
Strategic competence, conceptualized as the ability to put semantic, grammatical, and pragmatic knowledge into use, is a key element in models of communicative language proficiency but remains a difficult construct to assess in language tests. In the oral proficiency interview (OPI), strategic… read more
2025 Learner gains from pragmatics instruction across contexts: A mixed-effects analysis Applied Pragmatics 7:2, pp. 192–224 | Article
This study reports findings from a mixed-effects analysis on item- and person-levels for five intact classes of learners following a semester-long pragmatics instruction. Data represent multiple-choice responses on an instrument assessing pragmatic awareness from learners at three levels of… read more
2002 11. Aptitude-exposure interaction effects on Wh-movement violation detection by pre-and-post-critical period Japanese bilinguals Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning, Robinson, Peter (ed.), pp. 267–299 | Article
1998 Divergent Frame Interpretations in Oral Proficiency Interview Interaction Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency, Young, Richard and Agnes Weiyun He (eds.), pp. 333–354 | Article