A Review: What are the Merits of DA-oriented TEFL?

DA-based TEFL came into appearance with the emergence of discourse analysis to providethe language learners with how to know and use the functional aspects of language as asocio-linguistic means. Furthermore, the TEFL scholars and language pedagogy experts areon a far legitimate ground in terms of authenticity if they base their linguistic descriptionsand discursive evaluations upon what goes on in the classroom in the form of naturallanguage. This way, the findings of discourse, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysiscan help us avail ourselves and our students with the ‘philosophy’ behind and ‘why’ ofinterweaving linguistic and extra-linguistic elements just to create lingua-cultural intricacieswithin a text as a piece of discourse

کلیدواژه ها:

DA-based TEFL ، Discourse Analysis ، Socio-linguistic Means ، Authenticity