California Teacher of English Learners (CTEL) Question of the Day

Pragmatic competence refers only to a learner's' output skills, their speech and writing, not their receptive skills (reading and listening)

Pragmatic competence is generally acquired late in a second language learners development

Pragmatic competence can often be identified, or tested, in a learner's ability to "hedge" in communication

All of these statements about pragmatic competence are accurate.