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Language as Discourse. Perspectives for Language Teaching
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Second Language WritingEducational LinguisticsMultilingualismLinguistic AnthropologyPragmatic AnalysisLanguage EducationRhetoricClassroom DiscourseLanguage TeachingRefining Frameworks 1.4Foreign Language WritingMultilingual WritingLanguage CultureDiscourse AnalysisLanguage StudiesCommon Core PatternsLanguage-based ApproachSecond Language EducationLanguage CurriculumWriting StudiesPragmaticsGeneral EditorEnglish WritingDiscourse StructureLinguistics
The book examines core clause patterns, embedded structures, openings and closings, and thematic development in discourse, offering teaching suggestions. It aims to design a course syllabus that develops discourse competence through analysis, classification, and task-based materials. The methodology involves analyzing and classifying discourse, developing precursor tasks, contextualizing analysis for learners, evaluating materials, and refining the syllabus. The volume opens with a preface and acknowledgements, followed by chapters on discourse, grammar,.
General Editor's Preface Introduction Acknowledgements 1. Dividing the world of discourse 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Speech and writing 1.2 Frameworks for classifying spoken and written modes 1.3 Applying and refining frameworks 1.4 Monologue and dialogue 1.5 Text typologies 1.6 Genres 1.7 Conclusion 2. Observing and exploiting patterns 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Common core patterns of clause relations 2.2 Teaching suggestions 2.3 Embedded patterns 2.4 Openings an closings 2.5 The developing discourse 2.6 Thematic development 2.7 Conclusion 3. Linking and levels: grammar, lexis and discourse 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Grammar and discourse management 3.2 Tense, aspect and voice 3.3 Modality 3.4 Patterns and vocabulary 3.5 Naturalness 4. Literature, culture and language as discourse 4.0 Introduction 4.1 Conversational analysis: paragmatics and style 4.2 Analysing narratives 4.3 Repetition and rhetoric 4.4 Situations across cultures 4.5 Text and ideology 4.6 Teaching literature with a small 'l' 4.7 Discourse and cultural awareness: implications for the language learner 4.8 Teaching texts: curricular principles 4.9 Learning about language: some questions for discourse analysis 5. Designing the course syllabus 5.0 Introduction 5.1 The notion of 'discourse competence' 5.2 Analysis and classification 5.3 Analysis and the precursor of tasks 5.4 Putting analysis into the learner context 5.5 Analysis and materials evaluation 5.6 Refining and realizing the syllabus Bibliography Index Analyzing and classification 5.3 Analysis and the precursor of tasks 5.4 Putting analysis into the learner context 5.5 Analysis and materials evaluation 5.6 Refining and realizing the syllabus Bibliography Index Putting analysis into the learner context 5.5 Analysis and materials evaluation 5.6 Refining and realizing the syllabus Bibliography Index