This book describes the development and argument-based validation of a web-based test of second language pragmatics for learners of English. The test has a sociopragmatic orientation and strives for broad coverage of the construct by assessing metapragmatic judgment as well as the ability to co-construct discourse.

Ryan Noel Fraser’s cutting-edge research uncovers the distinctive re-authoring process of Christian adoptive parents’ faith narratives resulting from the experience of receiving a child through adoption. Ideal for courses in family studies, marriage and the family, adoption studies, pastoral theology, pastoral counseling, Christian counseling, theological anthropology, and practical theology.