摘要：Researchers new to the study of pragmatics soon realize that, in one way or another, they must measure or observe learners’ pragmatics performance. Turning to the literature, they find that studies have varied considerably over the years in the methods used to gather pragmatics data. The primary aim of this article is to briefly describe in one place the variety of testing instruments and other data gathering techniques available for collecting pragmatics data. I will begin by defining each of the six types of pragmatics tests included in Brown (in press) and then turn to the nine pragmatics data gathering procedures covered in Kasper (1999). I will end by discussing (a) factors that you might want to consider in deciding which procedures to use in a particular research project and (b) the order in which you might most advantageously apply those factors.
