Alicia Martínez-Flor is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Studies, Universitat Jaume I of Castelló. Her main research interests are in second language acquisition and interlanguage pragmatics. Her research has been published in international journals such as System, ELT Journal or Foreign Language Annals. She has co-edited the special issue Pragmatics in Instructed Language Learning in the international journal System (2005) with Eva Alcón Soler, as well as the volumes Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the Four Language Skills (Mouton de Gruyter, 2006) with Esther Usó-Juan, Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing (Multilingual Matters, 2008) with Eva Alcón Soler and Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, Empirical and Methodological Issues (John Benjamins, 2010) with Esther Usó-Juan.