Speaker: Naoko Taguchi, Professor in the Modern Languages Department at Carnegie Mellon University

Title: Learning How to Learn Pragmatics: Cultivating Self-Directed Learning Strategies for Pragmatics

Learning pragmatics involves understanding a relationship among linguistic forms and their

functional possibilities, and contextual elements that determine the form–function relationship

(Taguchi, 2019). Although the importance of pragmatics is widely recognized in second