Abstract
Children got it, young people and adults, at least in certain areas of their activities, got it, successful language learners got it, unsuccessful language learners don't have it - the illocutionary force of speaking when learning a new language. Illocution, which Searle not without reason called ‘illocutionary force’, appears as the decisive moment of the pragmatics of speech acts. Thus, illocution appears as the pragmatic foundation of speech acts in general and of speaking while learning a new language, opening ways to strategies for class-room activities biased for learning.