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The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach in Pragmalinguicric based Indonesian language teaching materials. A teaching module that employs the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach is a learning design developed by considering students’ needs in order to facilitate their understanding of learning competencies and skills. The Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach emphasizes instruction that is adjusted to students’ actual ability levels. Meanwhile, the pragmalinguistic content in the teaching materials is aimed at developing students’ ability to use language contextually, including speech acts, linguistic politeness, and the selection of linguistic forms appropriate to communicative situations. Pragmalinguistics encompasses the choice of linguistic forms that align with communicative purposes, speech acts, and politeness. Teaching materials containing pragmalinguistic elements help students engage in real communication across various social situations. This study employed a qualitative approach using descriptive analysis. The qualitative descriptive analysis method was used to describe the research data related to the implementation of the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach in Indonesian language teaching modules based on pragmalinguistics. Data were collected through field research involving Indonesian language teachers and the Indonesian language learning process at the junior high school level. The research subjects were teachers and students of junior high schools in Semarang City. The findings indicate that the application of the TaRL approach enables teachers to group students, and that the Indonesian language teaching materials based on pragmalinguistics are adjusted to the conditions and characteristics of the students, ranging from simpler language structures to more complex utterances.