Gila A. Schauer is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Erfurt, Germany. She received her PhD from the University of Nottingham, England. Her research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, linguistic impoliteness, textbook/materials analysis, intercultural communication,  and language and gender.

• Introduction.- Literature Review.- Methodology.- Results - Speech Acts in Textbooks.- Results - Speech Acts in Children's books.- Results - EFL Primary School Teachers.- Results - Young L2 Learners.- Conclusion.

“The book is not only valuable for its investigation into the representation of pragmatic knowledge in the teaching materials used in Germany, but also because its theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical implications can be extended to EFL contexts in general … . We thus highly recommend it to interlanguage pragmatics researchers and EFL teachers.” (Yuqing Zhang and Hang Su, Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 166, 2020)