PRAGMATICS AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - A Journey from Philosophy to Classroom Practice

Human language is so miraculous that every day when we sail in our thinking ocean, we explore the charming beauties of it in thousands of islands. We are well competent enough in organizing meaningful utterances, or reading and understanding any written material. Texts on language and foreign/second language learning and teaching have been adequate in instructional market, however, sources combining the theoretical knowledge into practical ones are very few. The emphasis on the teaching of the “pragmatic competence” is very much covered in curricula, syllabi and the course-books in language learning and teaching world. Nevertheless, limited descriptive background knowledge on pragmatic competence hampers the communicative development L2 learners, workers of teaching foreign languages and ELT students. This book provides insight in gathering the linguistic and pragmatic knowledge, thereby, supports language teaching and learning.
In our constantly changing and shrinking world, language studies have been gaining gravity. The central idea of this book is to present what has been going on in the linguistic, pragmatic and language learning quarters and close the gap between the findings of the research in pragmatics and the actual foreign language teaching. The book may take the interest of all language teachers, graduate students of ELT, teacher educators, and material developers.