The book Speech Acts in English from Research to Instruction and Textbook Development opens a new path in applying cognitive linguistics to EFL teaching. Adopting a contrastive, cognitive‐constructional approach, this book offers a unified model of illocution in the form of cognitive pedagogical grammar of directive speech acts, and based on the model a set of practical implementations are provided to ensure efficient learning, thus bridging the gap between theory and practice. The pedagogical application of cognitive linguistics to EFL teaching helps to ensure efficient teaching of speech acts and sets grounds for a more comprehensive approach to the illocutionary phenomenon. Undoubtedly, this book represents a significant contribution in cognitive linguistics and EFL teaching.