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Research into practice: The influence of discourse studies on language descriptions and task design in published ELT materials

Gilmore, Alex·2015·Language Teaching
DOI 10.1017/s0261444815000269
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Discourse studies is a vast, multidisciplinary, and rapidly expanding area of research, embracing a range of approaches including discourse analysis, corpus analysis, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, genre analysis and multimodal discourse analysis. Each approach offers its own unique perspective on discourse, focusing variably on text, context or a range of semiotic modes. Together, they provide foreign language teachers and material designers with new insights into language, and are beginning to have an observable impact on published English Language Teaching (ELT) materials. This paper examines the ways in which the four approaches with the strongest links to the ELT profession (corpus analysis, conversation analysis, discourse analysis and genre analysis) have found their way into language learning materials, and offers some suggestions on how discourse studies may influence ELT classrooms in the future.

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Authors
Gilmore, A.
Venue
Language Teaching
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2015-09-08
Volume
48
Issue
4
Pages
506-530
ISSN
  • 0261-4448 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-3049
DOI
10.1017/s0261444815000269
OpenAlex
W2460929853
Cited by
41
References
190
Citations by year
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FWCI
37.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations
Language Teaching (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and Language Analysis
Keywords
discourse studies, English language teaching materials, language description, task design, corpus analysis, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, genre analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, language learning materials

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