This Special Issue on Pragmatic Development and Stay Abroad farther expands the study on pragmatic development, centering especially on pragmatic learning in a stay abroad context. The stressed topics cover learner status, pragmatic assay degrees, the practice of corpus-linguistic and computerised technologies in interlanguage pragmatic data assay and lastly the impact of length of stay, interaction intensity and also learner perceptions of input on the growth of pragmatic competence during stay abroad.