USING DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ASPECTS TO TEACH WRITING IN THE YEMENI SECONDARY SCHOOLS
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This paper aims at providing the Yemeni English language teachersof secondary schools with some aspects of the Discourses Analysis (DA) in order to applythem in teaching thewriting skills. The study analyses two writing activities extracted from students course book called ‘Crescent’ to check whether the Crescent course book contains activities responsible for enhancing students' competence in the writing skill or not. It is found that Crescent concentrates on teaching English writing skills at the level of sentences, which merely draws students' attention into focusing on producing sentences free of grammar mistake.Furthermore, based on the analyses, the study finds that the analysed-activities are not sufficient to develop students’ awareness of the processes of writing as it used in real situations. Such finding is also justifiedby the objectives that the textbook sets for teaching the writing skill. Thus, the present studyrecommends the implication of DA aspectsin teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) and their roles in assisting teacherswith developing their students writing skills. Finally, the paper attempts to imply DA aspects totwo examplesextracted from the textbook to encourage teachers to do some modification to thewriting activities in order todevelop their students’ writing abilities.
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