PAC7 and JALT2008
The annual international JALT conference was held in Tokyo from October 31st to November 3rd, 2008. This year's theme was Shared Identities: Our interweaving threads. As always, there were hundreds of useful presentations and workshops dealing with a range of topics related to teaching. Those that dealt with pragmatics are listed below and full details of the abstracts can be found in the latest issue of Pragmatics Matters.. Hope to see you all at the conference!
Pragmatics presentations
Classroom-based assessment for L2 pragmatics
Noriko Ishihara
Discourse and identity
Tim Greer, Keiko Ikeda, Yuzuru Takizawa
Teaching pragmatics for test preparation
Jill Murray
Pragmatics SIG AGM
Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska
Teaching irony in the language classroom
Steven Pattison
Observing Talk: How to hold a CA data session
Tim Greer
Formulating shared understanding by turn taking
Ian Nakamura
Pragmatic Needs Analysis of Japanese EFL Learners
Seiji Fukazawa
Desperate Housewives in an EFL Classroom
Sybil Armstrong
Examining EFL learners' acquisition of apologies
Yuh-Fang Chang
Pragmatic Theory and Pedagogy: A New Take on Grice
Neil Murray
Pragmatic competence and the critical period
Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska
