This third edition of Teaching and Researching Writing continues to build upon the previous
editions' work of providing educators and practitioners in applied linguistics with a clearly …

A primary undertaking in communicative language teaching is to ensure second language
(L2) speakers develop the ability to interact in real-world communicative events, a skill …

This Element introduces the areas that second language (L2) pragmatics research has
investigated. It begins with a theme-based review of the field with respect to L2 pragmatics …

In this position paper, we argue that second language (L2) pragmatic research needs to
explore new avenues for integrating speech acts and interaction, by proposing a radically …

Pragmatic ability is crucial for second language learners to communicate appropriately and
effectively; however, pragmatics is underemphasized in language teaching and testing. This …

This qualitative study reports an investigation of the nature of interactional competence at
various levels of achievement in the context of role-play speaking assessment. The focal …

There has recently been strong interest in the assessment of interactional competence (IC)
as witnessed by a special issue of the journal Language Testing (Plough et al., 2018) …

The advancement of digital technologies requires English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
education to incorporate digital-multimodal approaches in curriculum development to …

This state-of-the-art paper discusses common approaches to the assessment of pragmatic
competence. Two approaches have dominated the assessment practice in the field of …

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language
acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and …