The work at hand is part of a wider study the aim of which was to determine what kind of factors influence pragmatic failure in an online adaptive placement test taken by Spanish students in their first year at university. A preceding analysis (Carrio and Martin, 2016) showed the type of personal factors that caused the exam takers pragmatic failure according to their own perception. In this paper, we go deeper and search about what specific pragmatic categories the items more frequently failed in the test belong to, so that we can reach some conclusions about its content validity and state whether the pragmatics construct is underrepresented or not in this test.

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ESL在线自适应分班考试中的实用项目分析

这项工作是更广泛研究的一部分，其目的是确定哪种因素会影响西班牙学生在大学一年级时进行的在线自适应分班考试中的语用失误。先前的分析（Carrio和Martin，2016年）显示了导致考生根据自己的感知实际失败的个人因素类型。在本文中，我们将更深入地研究那些在测试中较常失败的项目属于哪些特定的语用类别，以便我们可以得出关于其内容有效性的一些结论，并说明该语用结构在该测试中的代表性是否不足。