GSL 609 - Discourse Analysis and Application

This course will introduce students to the most current literature in discourse analysis application in second language teaching. Students will be introduced to the teaching of language for communications, develop an understanding of language at the discourse level and of the relationships of form and meaning that relate coherently to an external communicative function or purpose and a given audience, and become familiar with the challenges the L2 learners face in real life settings. Students will also become familiar with a framework to identify, describe and explain discourse level errors, and develop lesson plans based on their analysis of an international student’s writing sample.