Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language

Zia Tajeddin is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, where he teaches doctoral courses in L2 Pragmatics, Culture and Identity, and Teacher Education. He is the co-editor of Applied Pragmatics (John Benjamins) and sits on the editorial/review boards of many journals such as RELC Journal and TESL-EJ. His research interests center on L2 pragmatics instruction and assessment, classroom discourse analysis, teacher identity and cognition, and EIL/ELF. His recent co-edited volume (with Carol Griffiths) is Lessons from Good Language Teachers (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Minoo Alemi is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Islamic Azad University (IAU), West Tehran Branch, and a post-doctoral associate at Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Iran. She is the founder of Robot-Assisted Language Learning (RALL) and the co-founder of Social Robotics in Iran. She is the associate editor of Applied Pragmatics (John Benjamins) and sits on the editorial/review boards of many journals, including British Journal of Educational Technology, BRAIN, LIBRI, and Scientia Iranica. Her areas of interest include discourse analysis, L2 pragmatics, materials development, and robot-assisted language education.

• List of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsSeries Editor ForwardAcknowledgmentsPragmatics Pedagogy in EIL: An OverviewZia Tajeddin and Minoo Alemi1 Pragmatics Pedagogy and EIL: A Historical PerspectiveZia Tajeddin and Minoo Alemi2 Pragmatic Competence in EILAnne Barron 3 Teacher Pragmatic Awareness in English as an International LanguageEsther Usó-Juan and Alicia Martínez-Flor4 Global Englishes and Intercultural Communication: Implications for Understanding and Teaching Pragmatics Will Baker and Yasmina Abdzadeh5 Intercultural Pragmatics in English as a Lingua FrancaNaoko Taguchi and Shota Yamaguchi6 Pragmatic Instruction in English as an International LanguageAriadna Sánchez-Hernández and Eva Alcón-Soler 7 Pragmatics of (Im)Politeness in EIL InteractionsGerrard Mugford8 Pragmatic Teaching Materials in EILThi Thuy Minh Nguyen and Helen Basturkmen 9 Teaching the Pragmatics of English as an International Language: Practitioners’ Perspectives Informing Language Teacher DevelopmentNoriko Ishihara10 Perceptions of Pragmatics in EIL: Voices from Scholars and TeachersErhan Aslan11 Pragmatics Assessment in English as an International Language (EIL)Shuai Li12 Rating Criteria and Norms for Pragmatic Assessment in the Context of EILZia Tajeddin, Minoo Alemi, and Neda Khanlarzadeh13 Methods and Data Bases for Investigating Pragmatics in EILSoo Jung Youn and Brett Hashimoto Epilogue: The Future of EIL-Aware Pragmatics PedagogyMinoo Alemi and Zia TajeddinIndex