Retraction notice to ``Developing multiliteracy skills and pragmatic communication awareness of university students learning a foreign language (English) for specific purposes'' [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 42, December 2021, 100956] (Thinking Skills and Creativity (2021) 42, (S1871187121001711), (10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100956))

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors-in-Chief. After a thorough investigation, the Editors have concluded that the acceptance of this article was based upon the positive advice of two illegitimate reviewer reports. The reports were submitted from email accounts which were provided to the journal as suggested reviewers during the submission of the article. Although purportedly real reviewer accounts, the Editors have concluded that these were not of appropriate, independent reviewers. This manipulation of the peer-review process represents a clear violation of the fundamentals of peer review, our publishing policies, and publishing ethics standards. Apologies are offered to the reviewers whose identity was assumed and to the readers of the journal that this deception was not detected during the submission process. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd