Given the feasibility, necessity and relevance of teaching pragmatics in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching/learning contexts and the impossibility to do so through most of the currently available textbooks, this paper presents a series of planned classroom activities based on audiovisual resources (i.e. featured films). Our teaching proposal on the speech act of requesting is addressed to university or adult Spanish EFL learners and it draws on some findings of previous interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) research. That is why it develops an awareness-raising approach aimed at developing receptive pragmatic knowledge on contextual and social appropriateness. Appropriateness is an aspect acquired much later than the pragmalinguistic side of ILP and whose difficulty calls for taking into account factors such as the impact of ILP processes (e.g. overgeneralization) and/or the possible learning effects (e.g. avoidance) derived from stereotyping or previous classroom experiences.
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