Applying Discourse Analysis to Reading Course

阅读课是英语教学的主要手段，也是学生获取语言知识与掌握基本技能的主要途径。传统的阅读课讲授方法只注意了阅读材料的文字而忽视了语篇的作用。现在，教师要自觉地运用语篇分析法来分析语篇的交际功能。

Reading is the main means of English teaching and the major channel for students to get linguistic knowledge and to get basic skills. However, the traditional teaching method in a reading course only focuses on the reading material itself and neglects the role of discourse knowledge. So, we teachers should apply the means of discourse analysis consciously to analyzing the communicative function of a discourse, the structure of an article and the logical relationship between paragraphs.