Are you actually looking to test learners' ability to be impolite in English or their ability to be polite? Both abilities are required to be fully competent  in a language, but I would suggest that learners first need to learn how to follow politeness rules before they learn how to break them.

Yogesh's idea of drawing on standardized tests from the área of psychology seems a good approach, but such tests would need to be adapted for their use with L2 learners. Likewise, his mention of a test of pragmatic language is intriguing: I would like to know what this consists of.

One thing that you would need to bear in mind when using such tests is the linguistic ceiling concept, i.e. the threshold of language competence necessary for learners to be able to transfer non-language skills from their L1 to their L2. This issue is well-documented in the fields of L2 Reading and L2 Listening, but it is also relevant to sociocultural and pragmatic skills and strategies. Learners would need to have at least a high B1 level before such skills and strategies can transfer readily to the L2.

If you want to devise your own test for impoliteness, you should consider this page:

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/impoliteness/index.htm

The sections on strategies, forms, and contexts and the bibilography are certainly worth a look

Standardized tests can tap the array of behavior and abilities that have been described under our social communication model. Please refer to https://depts.washington.edu/soccomm/tests/standard.html

It would be a mix of social communication behaviour and language assessment.

Social communication behaviors are most typically assessed via caregiver and teacher report. We have found four instruments particularly useful in this regard. They are as follows:

Social Skills Rating Scale (SSRS)

Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)

Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Vineland)

Test of Problem Solving - Elementary Revised

(TOPS-E, Revised)

Language assessment will need to examine performance in semantics, syntax, and pragmatics. Four instruments have been useful to us in assessing language of school age children. They are as follows:

Test of Language Competence (TLC)

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-3)

Test of Language Development - Intermediate

(TOLD-I:3)

Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL)

Test of Pragmatic Language (TOPL)

https://depts.washington.edu/soccomm/tests/standard.html

Quite an interesting task for discussion.

Its really a choice of mixing the language assessment  and  social communication skills or going with only one of them.

Are you actually looking to test learners' ability to be impolite in English or their ability to be polite? Both abilities are required to be fully competent  in a language, but I would suggest that learners first need to learn how to follow politeness rules before they learn how to break them.

Yogesh's idea of drawing on standardized tests from the área of psychology seems a good approach, but such tests would need to be adapted for their use with L2 learners. Likewise, his mention of a test of pragmatic language is intriguing: I would like to know what this consists of.

One thing that you would need to bear in mind when using such tests is the linguistic ceiling concept, i.e. the threshold of language competence necessary for learners to be able to transfer non-language skills from their L1 to their L2. This issue is well-documented in the fields of L2 Reading and L2 Listening, but it is also relevant to sociocultural and pragmatic skills and strategies. Learners would need to have at least a high B1 level before such skills and strategies can transfer readily to the L2.

If you want to devise your own test for impoliteness, you should consider this page:

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/impoliteness/index.htm

The sections on strategies, forms, and contexts and the bibilography are certainly worth a look

Hello Fatima,

Our ideas on this topic may be helpful :

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275946361_Politeness_Impoliteness_and_Rudeness_A_Pragmatic_Analysis

Conference Paper Politeness , Impoliteness and Rudeness : A Pragmatic Analysis

thanks for your valuable comments,

in fact, i'm working on a project using the tenets of Socio-cultural theory. to this end, first i need to devise my own test wherein the competence of language learners regarding impoliteness is tested then the participants will go under  an instructional course with some type of SCOBAs or Clips on some impolite expressions (e.g. get lost, suit yourself, who asked you, etc.) which is followed by a post-test as well as a delayed post test. may main problem is about my test in terms of its validity and reliability. so i'm looking for a reliable and valid test which i couldn't find. i need some experts who help me in validating my test, would you please let me know your comments and perspectives?

thanks so much 

One suggestion is to think about assessing idiomatic expressions relevant to a particular language or cultural subgroup.  You can embed the expressions into items and see whether or not the test takers are familiar with those expressions and how they impact their ability to respond correctly to test items and the load of those expressions knowledge of the content you are testing if your test is content-based.  If examinees have difficulty responding correctly.to a content based question, the expressions can be compromising the validity of the item based on construct irrelevant reasons.

Your questionnaire must be devised based on your research questions and variables. No pre-cast one is beneficial to you. 

thank you--Maria & Parviz

beneficial points for me and my study