A Discourse Approach to Spoken and Written Narratives: Pedagogical Implications for EFL Learners
Recent research on the analysis of spoken discourse (Halliday, 1985, McCarthy, 1998) shows that spoken language also has a consistent structure and in many respects, it does have the language patterns as that of written English. Thus, it proves that both spoken and written language have a describab...
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Department of English, University of Chitral
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Recent research on the analysis of spoken discourse (Halliday, 1985, McCarthy, 1998) shows that spoken language also has a consistent structure and in many respects, it does have the language patterns as that of written English. Thus, it proves that both spoken and written language have a describable structure. The aim of this study is to explore some discourse features of both spoken and written English and their pedagogical implication. For this purpose, two texts: a spontaneous speech (recorded and transcribed) and then a short-written poem areanalyzed at both micro and macro level of discourse. As both texts have narrative content, Labov’s model of narrative analysis is applied to identify their organizing pattern. Similarities and differences in the discourse features of both texts are also examined. Some pedagogical implications of such an analysis are also suggested to language teachers; so that they can
improve students’ language competence skills by adopting discourse-based teaching strategies.
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| spelling | doaj.art-83cd6c47c6d44bfb8f00639f6aeebe4b2024-04-12T16:47:13ZengDepartment of English, University of ChitralUniversity of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature2617-36112663-15122023-12-015I10.33195/p9bz0c66A Discourse Approach to Spoken and Written Narratives: Pedagogical Implications for EFL LearnersMs. Qurrat-ul-Ain0Department of English, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad Recent research on the analysis of spoken discourse (Halliday, 1985, McCarthy, 1998) shows that spoken language also has a consistent structure and in many respects, it does have the language patterns as that of written English. Thus, it proves that both spoken and written language have a describable structure. The aim of this study is to explore some discourse features of both spoken and written English and their pedagogical implication. For this purpose, two texts: a spontaneous speech (recorded and transcribed) and then a short-written poem areanalyzed at both micro and macro level of discourse. As both texts have narrative content, Labov’s model of narrative analysis is applied to identify their organizing pattern. Similarities and differences in the discourse features of both texts are also examined. Some pedagogical implications of such an analysis are also suggested to language teachers; so that they can improve students’ language competence skills by adopting discourse-based teaching strategies. https://jll.uoch.edu.pk/index.php/jll/article/view/106discourse, pedagogy, EFL learners, written discourse |
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| title | A Discourse Approach to Spoken and Written Narratives: Pedagogical Implications for EFL Learners |
| title_full | A Discourse Approach to Spoken and Written Narratives: Pedagogical Implications for EFL Learners |
| title_fullStr | A Discourse Approach to Spoken and Written Narratives: Pedagogical Implications for EFL Learners |
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| title_short | A Discourse Approach to Spoken and Written Narratives: Pedagogical Implications for EFL Learners |
| title_sort | discourse approach to spoken and written narratives pedagogical implications for efl learners |
| topic | discourse, pedagogy, EFL learners, written discourse |
| url | https://jll.uoch.edu.pk/index.php/jll/article/view/106 |
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