Centre for Language Education Research (CLER) Workshop

Building rapport through language: Addressing pragmatics in the L2 classroom

This event is to be held in the Coach House, Hillary Place. Light refreshments will be served from 3.30pm.

Noriko Ishihara is Professor of Applied Linguistics and (T)ESOL at Hosei University, Japan. She holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Minnesota and currently teaches intercultural communication, TESOL methods, and English as an additional language at Hosei University. She also facilitates professional development courses in Japan, the US, and elsewhere with a particular focus on L2 pragmatics and intercultural awareness. Her research interests include instructional pragmatics, identity and culture in language learning, (im)politeness and microaggressions in language teaching, teacher education, and aviation English. She is an author of Teaching and learning pragmatics: Where language and culture meet (2nd edition, Routledge 2022), earlier editions of which have been translated into Arabic, Japanese, and Korean, as well as other publications in (critical) applied linguistics and language pedagogy. More information about her work can be found on her personal profile webpage.

In this workshop, you will have a hands-on opportunity to experience how pragmatic aspects of an L2 can be explicitly introduced to learners, how (meta)pragmatic awareness can be enhanced, and how production of socially preferred language can be practiced according to the social context.

This is a free event but registration is essential as places are limited.