About the Authors Acknowledgements Preface Part 1: Background Chapter 1. Carsten Roever and Rod Ellis: Tests of L2 Pragmatics: What Do They Assess? Part 2: The Development of the Tests Chapter 2. Rod Ellis, Natsuko Shintani and Yan Zhu: Introducing the Project: The Test Battery Chapter 3. Rod Ellis, Yan Zhu and Natsuko Shintani: The Metapragmatic Knowledge Test: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Japanese Learners Chapter 4. Rod Ellis and Natsuko Shintani: Evaluating the Social Variables Test Chapter 5. Rod Ellis, Yan Zhu, Natsuko Shintani and Carsten Roever: The Irony Test: A Study of Chinese Learners' Ability to Comprehend Irony Chapter 6. Rod Ellis, Yan Zhu, Natsuko Shintani: The Elicited Imitation Test: An Exploratory Study of L2 Learners' Knowledge of Hedging Chapter 7. Rod Ellis and Natsuko Shintani: The Monologic Role Play: A Genre-Based Approach to Measuring Pragmatic Ability Chapter 8.

Rod Ellis, Yan Zhu and Natsuko Shintani: The Dialogic Role Play: A Discourse-Analytic Approach to Measuring Pragmatic Ability Chapter 9. Rod Ellis, Natsuko Shintani and Yan Zhu: Assessing Implicit and Explicit Pragmatic Competence: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Part 3: Mediating Factors Chapter 10. Carsten Roever, Natsuko Shintani, Yan Zhu and Rod Ellis: Proficiency as an Individual Difference Variable Chapter 11. Natsuko Shintani and Rod Ellis: The Roles of Language Proficiency and Study Abroad in Japanese Students' Receptive Pragmatic Competence Chapter 12. Natsuko Shintani and Rod Ellis: The Effect of Digital Explicit-Deductive Instruction on the Development of Explicit and Implicit Pragmatic Abilities Part 4: Conclusion Chapter 13. Rod Ellis: Retrospect and Prospect Appendices References Index.