Developing ESP Learner L2 Pragmatic Awareness through Interviewing Native Speakers of English

The article proposes ways of developing foreign language learners’ pragmatic awareness in ESP settings through involving them in research on their own difficulties and pragmatic failures in communication with native speakers. It also discusses data obtained from an experiment undertaken by the author / teacher in co-operation with music students learning English as a foreign language at the Rachmaninov Institute of Music in Tambov, Russia.