This study examined the development of pragmatic comprehension ability in terms of speed and accuracy across time. Sixty university students of Turkish completed a pre-test and a post-test measuring ability to comprehend implied meaning in dialogues. The participants’ comprehension was analyzed for accuracy (scores on the listening task) and comprehension speed (average time taken to answer each item correctly). The learners’ accuracy and comprehension speed improved significantly over a 8-week period. However, the effect was lower for comprehension speed than for accuracy. Foreign language proficiency bore no relationship to comprehension speed, and speed had no relationship with accuracy. Moreover, accuracy and comprehension speed were not related to each other. These findings suggest that development of pragmatic knowledge and processing capacity of using the knowledge may not coincide perfectly and necessarily in foreign language development.