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Discourse Analysis in Language Teaching

The document discusses the relationship between discourse analysis and language teaching. It provides four applications of discourse analysis: 1) to teaching grammar, focusing on grammar elements in context, 2) to teaching vocabulary by organizing words into groups based on context of use, 3) in second language writing by having students analyze written discourse to personalize their learning and develop writing versatility, 4) to teaching text interpretation by emphasizing that understanding relies on both the author and reader.

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Discourse Analysis in Language Teaching

The document discusses the relationship between discourse analysis and language teaching. It provides four applications of discourse analysis: 1) to teaching grammar, focusing on grammar elements in context, 2) to teaching vocabulary by organizing words into groups based on context of use, 3) in second language writing by having students analyze written discourse to personalize their learning and develop writing versatility, 4) to teaching text interpretation by emphasizing that understanding relies on both the author and reader.

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What is the relationship between discourse analysis and language teaching?

Classroom discourse seems to be the best way of systematizing the linguistic code that learners are to
acquire. The greatest opportunity to store, develop and use the knowledge about the target language is
arisen by exposure to authentic discourse in the target language provided by the teacher.

APPLICATION OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TO TEACHING GRAMMAR

Interested in its significance for producing comprehensible communicative products, realization of


grammar items in different languages, their frequency of occurrence in speech and writing which is to
enable teaching more natural usage of the target language, as well as learners' native tongue.. it is
advisable to provide learners with contexts which would exemplify how native users of language take
advantage of anaphoric references, ellipses, articles and other grammar related elements of language
which, if not crucial, are at least particularly useful for proficient communication

APPLICATION OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TO TEACHING VOCABULARY


Discourse analysts maintain that knowledge of vocabulary-connected discourse devices supports language
learning in diverse manners. Firstly, it ought to bring students to organize new items of vocabulary into
groups with common context of use to make them realize how the meaning of a certain word might
change with circumstances of its use or co-text. Moreover, it should also improve learners' abilities to
choose the appropriate synonym, collocation or hyponym

APPLICATION OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING


 The writing classroom in English as a second language (ESL) can be organized so that students themselves
learn to analyze the written discourse of the society around them and appropriate the results of their
analysis for their own writing purposes. In so doing, they can personalize their learning, choosing discourse
materials suitable for their own proficiency level and areas of special interest. By introducing specific
discourse analysis techniques and tasks, instructors can foster greater independence in their students as
they develop the ability to take control of their own language development. A discourse analysis approach
also leads to greater writing versatility, as student writers are exposed in a systematic way to a variety of
written genres, or types of written discourse. Each genre presents a different set of rhetorical choices that
students can study and adapt to their own writing. 

APPLICATION OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TO TEACHING TEXT INTERPRETATION


Interpretation of a written text in discourse studies might be defined as the act of grasping the meaning
that the communicative product is to convey. It is important to emphasize that clear understanding of
writing is reliant on not only what the author put in it, but also on what a reader brings to this process.
Discourse analysis

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