ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the use of pragmatics as an organizing principle the implications of what that means in the development of a pragmatics-focused curriculum. Then, it explores several principles that readers may find important and applicable in the development of a pragmatics-focused curriculum in their own instructional contexts. The chapter illustrates how these principles can be translated into learner exercises intended to raise learner's pragmatic awareness and improve their productive skills related to pragmatics. The seven principles are explicitly stating the primary goal and approach to L2 pragmatics, utilizing empirically established information and naturalistic speech samples, guiding learner's observations and raising pragmatic awareness, providing interactional and language-focused practice, facilitating self-evaluation, explaining cultural reasoning for L2 pragmatic norms, providing communication strategies for pragmatic L2 use and referring teachers and learners to resources on L2 pragmatics.
