Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings. The number and variety of languages involved both as the first language (e.g. English, Finnish, Iranian, Spanish, Japanese) as well as the target foreign language (e.g. English, French, German, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish) makes the volume specially attractive for language educators in different sociocultural foreign language contexts. Additionally, the different approaches adopted by the researchers participating in this volume, such as information processing, sociocultural, language socialization, computer-mediated or conversation analysis should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.

Eva Alcón Soler, senior lecturer at University Jaume I, has been working on discourse and language learning since 1993. Her research has covered, among others, interlanguage pragmatics, lingua franca communication, interaction and second language acquisition. Her recent publications have focussed on intercultural language use and language learning and on learning pragmatics in foreign language contexts.

Alicia Martínez-Flor is a Senior Lecturer of English Applied Linguistics at Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). She is a member of LAELA (Lingüística Aplicada a l'Ensenyament de la Llengua Anglesa) research group at Universitat Jaume I, and an executive board member of ITAP (International Association for Teaching Pragmatics). Her main research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, instructional pragmatics, language teacher education in pragmatics, and foreign language learning and teaching. Her publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as System, Foreign Language Annals, ELT Journal and Language Teaching Research. She has co-edited the volumes ‘Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing’ (Multilingual Matters, 2008), ‘Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, Empirical and Methodological Issues’ (John Benjamins, 2010) and ‘L2 Pragmatics in Action: Teachers, Learners and the Teaching-Learning Interaction Process’ (John Benjamins, 2023).