Chapter published in:

Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics
Edited by Naoko Taguchi and YouJin Kim
[Task-Based Language Teaching 10] 2018
► pp. 2–24

Chapter 1. Task-based approaches to teaching and assessing pragmatics

An overview

Naoko Taguchi | Carnegie Mellon University

YouJin Kim | Georgia State University

Published online: 15 August 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/tblt.10.01tag

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