Instructed Second Language Pragmatics for The Speech Acts of Request, Apology, and Refusal: A Meta-Analysis. Ali Derakhshan & Farzaneh Shakki. (2023). Second Language Learning and Teaching, Springer Cham, 114 pages, ISBN: 978-3-031-37092-2

The current era of globalization and the emergence of English as an international language has brought about new opportunities for L2 pragmatic learning and teaching (Sánchez-Hernández & Martínez-Flor, 2022). Consequently, there has been a growing body of research on the effects of instruction on learners' development of L2 pragmatic competence. However, the meta-analyses in this field are still in their infancy, most of which are restricted to examining the effects of instructional methods on just one speech act and the broader assessment of pragmatic competence in the context of requests, apologies, and refusals has been lacking. To address this gap in the literature, Ali Derakhshan and Farzaneh Shakki contributed a lot with their work titled "Instructed Second Language Pragmatics for The Speech Acts of Request, Apology, and Refusal: A Meta-Analysis."