Review of Pragmatics and its Applications to TESOL and SLA by Salvatore Attardo & Lucy Pickering (2021)

Abstract

Pedagogical and developmental perspectives on L2 pragmatics have undergone rapid development in recent years (Attardo & Pickering, 2021; Ren, 2021). However, the application of pragmatics to English language classrooms is still limited since it has not been systematically included in most L2 language courses and materials (Roever, 2021). Pragmatics and its Applications to TESOL and SLA, by Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering, provides a deep overview of essential concepts in pragmatics and how one can apply those concepts to the pedagogy of second language acquisition (SLA) and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). The authors devote this book to students, professionals, and novice researchers who are interested in the theoretical and practical sides of L2 pragmatics. The book consists of 11 chapters in which different fundamental and advanced pragmatics-related topics are highlighted.