This paper brings together the research and developments of instructed pragmatics over the
past three decades by reporting the synthesis findings of instructional intervention studies in …

This article presents an overview of recent developments in second language (L2) teaching
and highlights the trends that began in the 1990s and the 2000s and are likely to continue to …

In this book, the authors foreground an aspect of language testing that is usually not much
discussed and is frequently considered an “advanced” topic: the social dimension of …

Cognitive linguistics is a branch of linguistics which has attracted a good deal of attention in
the past few years. As I show in this book, it has the potential to reshape thinking about how …

Theoretical, empirical, and practical interest in pragmatic competence and development for
second language (L2) learners has resulted in a large body of literature on teaching L2 …

Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics which
both covers theory and applies it to real spoken and written data. This textbook …

Although it may be surprising, the notion that a sustained sojourn in a foreign country may
have a positive impact on foreign language learners' communicative and cross-cultural …

The book outlines a framework for teaching second language pragmatics grounded in
Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. The framework focuses on the appropriation of …

Making pragmatics accessible to a wide range of students and instructors without dumbing
down the content of the field, this text for language professionals: raises awareness and …

This cross‐sectional study examined the effect of general proficiency and study‐abroad
experience on pragmatic comprehension in second‐language English. Participants were 25 …