How EFL textbooks accommodate pragmatics: An investigation into a newly published textbook series for Vietnamese upper-secondary school students

This study was conducted to see to what extent pragmatics is incorporated into a newly published EFL textbook series for Vietnamese upper-secondary school students under the National Foreign Language Project 2020 (NFLP 2020). The results show that there is a paucity of explicit information on pragmatics in this series. In addition, the presentations of different pragmatic aspects were found to be inadequate according to current theories of L2...