Teaching and Testing Second Language Pragmatics and Interaction: A Practical Guide

Abstract

Pragmatics — how social context affects the way we do things with language — plays a critical role in managing social interaction and interpersonal relationships. Despite decades of research on second language (L2) pragmatics, practical resources for teaching and assessing L2 pragmatics have continued to remain relatively scarce. Teaching and testing second language pragmatics and interaction: A practical guide by Roever (2022) is the first comprehensive hands-on guide written for language practitioners who wish to interweave aspects of pragmatics into their classroom teaching, curriculum design