DISCOURSE APPROACH TO TEACHING LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS
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https://doi.org/10.46991/flsp.v20i1-2.9013Keywords:
Discourse analysis, language and communicative competence, speech act, conversation analysis, real-life conversationAbstract
Performing successful speech acts is a fairly complex phenomenon, which involves sociocultural knowledge about when to perform a speech act and which one is appropriate in a given circumstance. In courses teaching foreign languages there has frequently been an overly simplistic tendency to equate speech acts with certain linguistic formulae. A number of scholars have emphasized the importance of using findings of studies on the performance of speech acts in real-life conversations for teaching language and communicative competence. Discourse analysis can provide valuable insights for effective language teaching in many areas, including grammar, vocabulary, communication strategies, cross-cultural communication, sociolinguistics and other.
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