{"pk":53189,"title":"Multidialectal Practices in L2 Arabic Pragmatics Research: Methodological Implications","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on learning second language (L2) pragmatics has undergone substantial methodological development in recent years (Taguchi &amp; Roever, 2017; Taguchi, 2019), but it remains limited by a lack of attention to a key feature of pragmatic competence: multilingual and multidialectal practices. In a field dedicated to helping L2 students learn “how-to-say-what-to-whom-when” (Bardovi-Harlig, 2013, p. 68), methodological approaches that do not account for multidialectal practices miss key aspects of pragmatic development that are directly related to learners’ agency and identity. Current research methodologies are still highly influenced by monolingual ideologies often missing crucial layers of the learning process and environment, resulting in an incomplete view of pragmatic development. This article synthesizes existing methods and proposes ways to address these limitations by adopting a multidialectal perspective. Taking research on L2 Arabic pragmatics learning as a case study, a systematic review of the data analytic methods and findings from the past two and a half decades (e.g., Al-Gahtani, 2022; Al‐Gahtani &amp; Roever, 2014a, 2014b, 2015; Al Masaeed, 2017; Al Masaeed, Waugh, &amp; Burns, 2018; Al-Rawafi, Sudana, Lukmana, &amp; Syihabuddin, 2021; Roever &amp; Al-Gahtani, 2015) reveals how multidialectal practices have been often overlooked in study methodologies, including data collection and analysis. Based on this synthesis, the article attempts to underscore the crucial role that multidialectal practices play in pragmatic development and the need for adopting a multidialectal perspective to challenge the influence of monolingual ideologies on L2 Arabic pragmatics research. </p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8878m38x","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Khaled","middle_name":"","last_name":"Al Masaeed","name_suffix":"","institution":"Other","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2025-10-18T03:28:17.635000Z","date_accepted":"2026-01-21T15:19:07.545000Z","date_published":"2026-05-07T20:38:59.507154Z","render_galley":{"label":"Final Galley","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/53189/galley/49081/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"Galley v1","type":"other","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/53189/galley/49042/download/"},{"label":"Final Galley","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/53189/galley/49081/download/"}]}