We are delighted to share that our book "Researching and Teaching Speech Acts with Young L2 Learners: Beneath the Linguistic Surface" by Milica Savić, Anders Myrset and Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis has won the TAA Textbook Excellence Award! Find out more about the book and order your copy below ⬇️

At the end of 2021, Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savic, Anders Myrset and I had our first conversations about editing a book on L2 pragmatics & young language learners. In our blog entry we explain why we felt that this book was needed: channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/y...

"While more than 80% of young learners in primary school learn a foreign language and research on this learner population has been conducted for more than two decades now, pragmatics has received little attention..." Read on here:

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

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...

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...

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

📣 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...

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/...