Alicia Martínez-Flor is a senior lecturer at Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics. She is a member of LAELA (Lingüística Aplicada a l'Ensenyament de la Llengua Anglesa) research group, and an executive board member of ITAP (International Association for Teaching Pragmatics). Her main research interests include instructional pragmatics, foreign language learning and teaching, and language teacher education. Her work focuses on analyzing EFL learners’ pragmatic development as well as teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding the integration of pragmatic competence in language learning settings. Additionally, she has also examined the potential of new teaching approaches that incorporate the use of audio-visual resources and pedagogical tasks to foster the development of pragmatics in instructional contexts. Her publications include articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Foreign Language Annals, ELT Journal, Language Teaching Research and Languages. She has co-edited the volumes Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing (Multilingual Matters, 2008), Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, Empirical and Methodological Issues (John Benjamins, 2010), L2 Pragmatics in Action: Teachers, Learners and the Teaching-learning Interaction Process (John Benjamins, 2023), as well as the special issues Pragmatics in Instructed Language Learning (2005) and L2 Pragmatics in Language Teacher Education (2025), both in System.