The @itapassociation.bsky.social (International Association for Teaching Pragmatics, or ITAP) was founded in 2020 by GRAL's Júlia Barón, Maria Luz Celaya & Roger Gilabert (@ub.edu) and Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández (@ucm.es). 🔗https://www.ub.edu/itap-association/?page_id=1435

At the end of June, @gralbcn.bsky.social was at the ITAP Annual Conference 2025: "Resources for L2 pragmatics teaching across instructional contexts" at the @ull.es in Tenerife, Spain. @itapassociation.bsky.social

Sometimes all it takes is a shared timer + other people writing to get you in the zone 💻 Loved running a Shut Up & Write session with the ITAP PhD Network! Can’t wait to keep this going in the fall! @itapassociation.bsky.social

Day 1 of the ITAP Annual Conference 2025: Resources for L2 pragmatics teaching across instructional contexts at @ull.es 👏 @gralbcn.bsky.social member and @itapassociation.bsky.social president Júlia Barón presents her work with colleagues below 👇 🔗 www.ub.edu/itap-associa...

GRAL member and PhD candidate Bridget Murphy presents some of her doctoral dissertation at Day 2 of @itapassociation.bsky.social 's annual conference. 👏

The organizing committee is getting everything ready for #ITAP2025 in-person participants! The Guajara campus in Tenerife is in full bloom and we cannot wait for you to see it. Online attendance is free, but don't forget to register! www.ub.edu/itap-associa...

Happy Sunday! Today is June 1st, and the ITAP Conference 2025 is only 25 days away! We have reached 200 registered participants from 40 countries around the world. Can you spot yours? You can find all the info here: www.ub.edu/itap-associa...

Hot off the press! 📗 Pragmatics & Language Learning - Volume 15 💡Teaching and Learning Interactional Pragmatics in a Digital World ➡️ You can find the #openaccess volume on ScholarSpace: scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/collections/...

Given that in-class time is limited, I wondered whether EFL students' awareness of email requests to faculty could be raised through self-access web-based #pragmatic instruction only 🧐 So happy to finally share the results of this project! #OpenAccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨ New OASIS summary ✨ ➡️ Raising EFL teachers’ awareness of L2 pragmatic teaching via teacher professional development: The impact of an effective training workshop oasis-database.org/concern/summ...

#Pragmatics on the #TBLTea Youtube Channel🍵🎥 "Thank You for (T)asking: Teaching Pragmatics with TBLT" In this talk, Dr. Naoko Taguchi explores how pragmatics fits into Task-Based Language Teaching. ▶️ youtu.be/ME53yOcxeEE?...

During the ITAP Annual Conference we will host seven thematic panels. Today we put the spotlight on the panels that explore #technology applications to teach L2 #pragmatics 👩🏻‍💻🤖💻 Check the program & register for free on our website: www.ub.edu/itap-associa... #ITAP2025

The #ITAP2025 Conference provisional program is now available! We will have sessions on technology, literary resources, audiovisual materials, teacher training proposals... Don't miss the opportunity to attend the conference, it's free! Registration: www.ub.edu/itap-associa... @aesla.bsky.social

🥳 The ITAP PhD Network is back with two free online sessions. If you are a PhD student who wants to learn more about the process of publishing your pragmatics research, don't miss these workshops! Registration form: forms.gle/9oT9a9JbhrQw...

The #ITAP2025 Conference provisional program is now available! We will have sessions on technology, literary resources, audiovisual materials, teacher training proposals... Don't miss the opportunity to attend the conference, it's free! Registration: www.ub.edu/itap-associa... @aesla.bsky.social

📢 Save the dates! The registration period for the ITAP Conference 2025 is now open. At ITAP we are firm supporters of open science, and that is why attendance at the conference will be FREE. Visit the conference site to fill in the registration form: www.ub.edu/itap-associa...

AI, corpora, picture books, graphic novels, audio-visual materials, humour, teacher training workshops... We have received fantastic proposals so far! Don't forget to send yours. Only two days left! 🕒🕓🕔 www.ub.edu/itap-associa...

Don't forget to send your proposal before March 1st! @aesla.bsky.social

📣 Call for proposals 📣 We will organize this year's ITAP Annual Conference in the beautiful Tenerife 🌴❤️ 📅 June 26-27, 2025 📍/ 💻 Universidad de La Laguna + online 📥 Abstract submission period closes on March 1st. 🌐 Read the call for proposals: www.ub.edu/itap-associa...

📣 Call for proposals 📣 We will organize this year's ITAP Annual Conference in the beautiful Tenerife 🌴❤️ 📅 June 26-27, 2025 📍/ 💻 Universidad de La Laguna + online 📥 Abstract submission period closes on March 1st. 🌐 Read the call for proposals: www.ub.edu/itap-associa...

We are back online and for our first post of 2025 we wanted to share an insightful accessible summary by Noriko Ishihara: "How does a translingual framework help with teaching pragmatics and teacher education?" OASIS Summary of Ishihara (2024) in System. www.oasis-database.org/details/xs55...

Check out our newly published books "Cultures of Sustainable Peace" and "Researching and Teaching Speech Acts with Young L2 Learners", both available now on our website! bit.ly/3nmDLG0

My open access book "Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics" came out this year. It examines how modern foreign language teachers in higher education conceptualize intercultural competence in relation to pragmatics. Link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

RESEARCHING AND TEACHING SPEECH ACTS WITH YOUNG L2 LEARNERS The book introduces main concepts & research findings and explores issues in teaching pragmatics & conducting pragmatics research with children 🌟 Special discount 🌟 Get 30% off w/ code MMDEC24 www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

The ITAP Fall Seminar has come to an end ❤️ A big thank you to the local organizing committee and to presenters and attendees, both online and in person 🙌🏻 Next ITAP big event? Our Annual Conference in June. We'll keep you posted! 🏝️

Become a member (it's free!) and register for ITAP Fall Seminar. Registration as an online attendee is free as well. 🌐 www.ub.edu/itap-associa...

This week is full of pragmatics-related events! Today we've held the PhD Network Launch event. We would like to thank both the organisers and the attendees for their great contributions to the session. We hope this is the first of many activities together! On Friday, don't miss the Fall Seminar!

📣 Only 5 days left for the ITAP Fall Seminar! We are really looking forward to seeing you all there! 🗓️ November 29th, 2024 🕒 9.00 - 18.15h (CET) 📍/ 💻 Hybrid: Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale / online #pragmatics

If you are interested in second language (L2) pragmatics & young language learners (YLL), I highly recommend "Researching and Teaching Speech Acts with Young L2 Learners: Beneath the Linguistic Surface" by M. Savic, A. Mryset, M. Economidou-Kogetsidis, www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...