TY - BOOK
T1 - Second Language Pragmatics and Young Language Learners: EFL Primary School Contexts in Europe
AU - Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria
AU - Schauer, Gila
AU - Savić, Milica
AU - Myrset, Anders
PY - 2025/10
Y1 - 2025/10
N2 - This book brings together research on second language pragmatics in the underexplored context of EFL primary classrooms. Presenting studies from Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Norway, Spain and the Netherlands, the book offers a rich exploration of different topics, such as learners' pragmatic performance, awareness and development, learners' and teachers' views on pragmatic instruction, and investigations concerning material use and lesson planning. The studies feature a range of data sources including animated films, arts-based instruction, classroom discourse, narrated picture-based tasks, questionnaires and interviews, introducing the reader to a wealth of opportunities for young learners' engagement with pragmatics. Being the first edited volume to provide an overview of the rapidly growing area of young learner pragmatics, it will be of great interest to researchers, graduate students and language teachers. *** Contents *** Chapter 1. Eva Jakupčević and Jelena O'Reilly: Young EFL Learners' Development of Discourse Marker Use * Chapter 2. Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Anders Myrset and Milica Savić: 'If we are Talking to the Minister of Education...': L2 Request Appraisals and Metapragmatic Awareness in Young Learners of English * Chapter 3. Anders Myrset: Giving Young Language Learners a Voice: Learner Feedback on Pragmatics Instruction * Chapter 4. Alicia Martínez-Flor: Exploring In-Service Primary School EFL Teachers' Views on Pragmatics * Chapter 5. Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Tetyana Sydorenko and Judit Dombi: Pragmatics in Primary School: A Look into an English-as-a-Foreign-Language Classroom * Chapter 6. Esther Usó-Juan: The Use of Animated Films as a Resource to Teach Oral Requests and Responses to Young Language Learners: An Evaluative Analysis * Chapter 7. Holger Limberg: Teaching Greetings in Young Learner EFL Classrooms: A Methodological Approach for Primary Pragmatics * Chapter 8. Karen Glaser: Teaching Pragmatics from the Start: Implementing Teaching Units on Greetings in the Primary EFL Classroom * Chapter 9. Gila A. Schauer and Raphaëlle Beecroft: An Arts-Based Approach to Pragmatic Instruction: Using Graphic Novels, Drama and Drawing to Teach Basic Speech Acts in Young EFL Learners
AB - This book brings together research on second language pragmatics in the underexplored context of EFL primary classrooms. Presenting studies from Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Norway, Spain and the Netherlands, the book offers a rich exploration of different topics, such as learners' pragmatic performance, awareness and development, learners' and teachers' views on pragmatic instruction, and investigations concerning material use and lesson planning. The studies feature a range of data sources including animated films, arts-based instruction, classroom discourse, narrated picture-based tasks, questionnaires and interviews, introducing the reader to a wealth of opportunities for young learners' engagement with pragmatics. Being the first edited volume to provide an overview of the rapidly growing area of young learner pragmatics, it will be of great interest to researchers, graduate students and language teachers. *** Contents *** Chapter 1. Eva Jakupčević and Jelena O'Reilly: Young EFL Learners' Development of Discourse Marker Use * Chapter 2. Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Anders Myrset and Milica Savić: 'If we are Talking to the Minister of Education...': L2 Request Appraisals and Metapragmatic Awareness in Young Learners of English * Chapter 3. Anders Myrset: Giving Young Language Learners a Voice: Learner Feedback on Pragmatics Instruction * Chapter 4. Alicia Martínez-Flor: Exploring In-Service Primary School EFL Teachers' Views on Pragmatics * Chapter 5. Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Tetyana Sydorenko and Judit Dombi: Pragmatics in Primary School: A Look into an English-as-a-Foreign-Language Classroom * Chapter 6. Esther Usó-Juan: The Use of Animated Films as a Resource to Teach Oral Requests and Responses to Young Language Learners: An Evaluative Analysis * Chapter 7. Holger Limberg: Teaching Greetings in Young Learner EFL Classrooms: A Methodological Approach for Primary Pragmatics * Chapter 8. Karen Glaser: Teaching Pragmatics from the Start: Implementing Teaching Units on Greetings in the Primary EFL Classroom * Chapter 9. Gila A. Schauer and Raphaëlle Beecroft: An Arts-Based Approach to Pragmatic Instruction: Using Graphic Novels, Drama and Drawing to Teach Basic Speech Acts in Young EFL Learners
M3 - Book
SN - ISBN: 9781836681687
T3 - Early Language Learning in School Contexts
BT - Second Language Pragmatics and Young Language Learners: EFL Primary School Contexts in Europe
PB - Multilingual Matters
ER -