This paper aims to discuss how the emerging new language with its own developing socio-
cultural foundation affects the existing L1-governed knowledge and pragmatic competence …

Recent research studies in ESL/EFL contexts worldwide have shown a gap between the
findings of pragmatics research and how the English language is actually taught and learnt …

Titles of books can be misleading, and this one may be too. A book which has “Pragmatic
Competence and Relevance” as its title could suggest a paradox ensuing from conflating …

The aim of this article is to explore theoretical and methodological aspects of the teaching of
pragmatics in a second language. Taking as point of departure the pragmatic continuum …

Interlanguage pragmatics research has contributed a great deal to our understanding of L2
pragmatic use but less to our understanding of L2 pragmatic development, although …

The main purpose of learning a second language is communication. Nevertheless, many
students are surprised when they realise that, in spite of having a perfect dominion of the L2 …

This paper explores the construction of collective identity by students in an academic
learning environment, and shows how such collective identity may hinder or slow down …

This cross-sectional study in interlanguage pragmatics analyzes the requests employed by
English-speaking learners of L2 Spanish, using data collected from university students at …

This paper examines student-faculty communication by email and the lack of clear
guidelines that leads to misuse of email in student-faculty interaction, whereby status …

Initial second language acquisition proceeds surprisingly quickly. Foreign words can
sometimes be used within minutes after the first exposure. Yet, it is unclear whether such …