Federal funding for the Title VI Language Resource Center (LRC) Program has been abruptly discontinued after 35 years of work in world language education. As a result, many LRCs including the NFLRC will be unable to carry out most of their activities planned for the fourth year of the current funding cycle (2025–2026). Learn More

    Pragmatik im Fremdsprachenunterricht [Pragmatics in foreign language teaching]

    Kasper, Gabriele

    Pragmatic competence has long been recognized as an important component of communicative competence. How can foreign language instruction help students to develop pragmatic ability in a second or foreign language? In this video, Gabriele Kasper reviews the research literature on this topic and reports on a study that examined explicit and implicit approaches to teaching pragmatic routines. IN GERMAN