Researching and Teaching Speech Acts with Young L2 Learners

Milica Savić is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her research focuses on L2 pragmatics, linguistic politeness, pragmatics instruction and research with children. Her publications include a monograph Politeness through the Prism of Requests, Apologies and Refusals. A Case of Advanced Serbian EFL Learners, a co-edited volume Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners, as well as papers in a number of edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. Anders Myrset is Associate Professor of ELT Methodology at the University of Stavanger, Norway. His research explores the teaching and development of pragmatic competence, (meta)pragmatic awareness of young EFL learners and issues related to research with children, and has appeared in various peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. He is an executive board member of the International Association for Teaching Pragmatics and an author of ELT textbooks for young language learners. Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Her research spans L2 and intercultural pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, linguistic politeness and L2 email pragmatics. She has published widely in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Pragmatics, the ELT Journal and the Language Learning Journal. She is the co-editor of the edited volumes Interlanguage Request Modification and Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners (John Benjamins).

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Acknowledgments



Introduction



Part 1: Setting the Scene: L2 Pragmatics, Speech Acts and Young L2 Learners



Chapter 1. Setting the Scene           



Chapter 2. Speech Acts      



Chapter 3. YLLs' Pragmatic Development: Speech Act Production and Perception     



Part 2: Eliciting Pragmatic Data with Young L2 Learners   



Chapter 4. Doing Research with Children   



Chapter 5. Data Elicitation in Pragmatics Research with YLLs



Chapter 6. Developing Data Elicitation Methods in Pragmatics Research with YLLs



Part 3: Teaching Speech Acts in the YLL Classroom



Chapter 7. Teaching L2 Pragmatics to YLLs



Chapter 8. Teaching L2 Pragmatics to YLLs: A Case Study



Conclusion



Appendices



References



Index