Application of Discourse Analysis to English 英语专业（毕业论文）.docxVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 Application of Discourse Analysis to English Teaching and Learning = 1 \* ROMAN I. Introduction Due to the influence of traditional grammar-translation teaching method, teachers do not launch on teaching from the hierarchy, structure and internal meaning but still put emphasis on the analysis of the difficult points of grammar and vocabulary teaching. This kind of teaching method has not made fundamental breakthrough of traditional grammar-translation teaching method. Therefore, students can not get the proper thinking methods and skills that students should obtain. Discourse analysis, as a young branch of learning sprung up in 1990s, has undergone a tremendous development, like any study of multi-disciplinary issues, it was denied and ignored by some scholars for a long time, but nowadays it becomes a prosperous subject that deals with the study and application of approaches to analyze written ,spoken or signed language. Contrary to much of traditional linguistics, discourse analysts not only study language use beyond the lexical, phrase and sentence boundary, but also prefer to analyze “naturally occurring” language use. This paper, in general, is an introduction to discourse and discourse analysis, which is divided into two parts: theoretical part and practical part. The former which presents a scholarly set of ideas, and the later is devoted to the account of the study in order to support the ideas presented in the first chapter .the former part is subdivided into three chapters .The first chapter provides a thorough description of the term ‘discourse’ itself, including examples of various types and features .The second one presents the origins and development of discourse analysis. And the last chapter of theoretical part provides the ways of applying the theory to teaching and learning various aspects of English language, such as grammar, text reading and comprehension, and the emphasis is put on the interpretation of written text. The practi