Analyzing the effects of multimodal input in the acquisition of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics is a recent area in research. In this line, the use of eye-tracking to investigate L2 pragmatics remains limited (Godfroid, 2019). This study aimed to explore the effects of multimodal input… read more
Corrective feedback (CF) has been regarded as a complex phenomenon with cognitive, social and psychological dimensions influencing its effectiveness for language development. Despite the extensive research conducted on its impact on morphosyntactic aspects of the language, CF on pragmatic aspects… read more
Over the last four decades, interlanguage pragmatics studies have paid special attention to instructional pragmatics; that is, to what extent instruction plays a role in developing learners’ second/foreign language (L2) pragmatic ability in instructional settings (Plonsky & Zhuang, 2019).… read more
The role of instruction in the field of interlanguage pragmatics has been regarded as having a positive effect on learners’ pragmatic development. However, most of the interventional studies conducted have only reported the immediate effects of instruction. Considering the need to examine the… read more
Suggestions are acts in which the speaker asks the hearer to perform an action that will potentially benefit the hearer (Rintell, 1979). Despite this fact, they have been regarded as face-threatening acts, since the speaker is in some way intruding into the hearer’s world by performing an act that… read more
Pragmatics, a branch of linguistics which studies communicative actions in their sociocultural context, has been the focus of attention of a number of scholars over the last few decades (Rose & Kasper, 2001). Given the importance of this area of research to develop competent users of a given… read more