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Introduction: Interlanguage Pragmatics in SLA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Gabriele Kasper
Gabriele Kasper
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University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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Interlanguage pragmatics—the study of nonnative speakers' use and acquisition of L2 pragmatic knowledge—has hovered on the fringes of SLA research thus far. In theories of 12 acquisition, pragmatics may figure as a constraint on syntactic knowledge, for instance, but pragmatics is not usually recognized as a knowledge component whose development deserves theoretical consideration in its own right. There is thus a tension between SLA as a theoretical (in the sense of “nonapplied”) discipline and the theory and practice of second or foreign language pedagogy. In theories of communicative competence in L2 teaching and testing, pragmatic competence figures prominently (e.g., Bachman, 1990). Curricula and materials for L2 teaching developed in recent years include strong pragmatic components or even adopt a pragmatic approach as their organizing principle.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 145 - 148
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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