ABSTRACT
This chapter provides to bring together the two fields—Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and second language (L2) pragmatics and demonstrate how SFL can enable new perspectives, reveal less explored research foci, and offer different methodological tools which would lead to further insights about the nature of L2 learning, communicative competence, and effective instruction. It explors a discussion of the commonalities between the two fields. The chapter deals with applications of the SFL-based approach to instruction that aims to foster L2 pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence, as well as suggestions for future research. SFL is a theory of language that focuses on how language functions and is structured to function to make meaning and achieve communicative goals in social contexts. L2 learners in the experimental group elaborated on their experiences through the use of a variety of linguistic resources that encode such interpersonal meanings as emotions of surprise and happiness, as well as evaluations of quality.
