المعيار
Volume 27, Numéro 4, Pages 1174-1184
2023-06-05
Comprehending Written Discourse In An Efl Classroom
Authors : Kouti Malika .
Abstract
The purpose of the present paper is to shed light on the concepts and elements involved in written discourse comprehension on the part of EFL learners. The question that should be raised is the following: what are the elements involved in the process of written discourse comprehension? The review of literature reveals that the concepts of cohesion, coherence, context, prior knowledge, and pragmatics are the building blocks of this process. Besides the linguistic knowledge, EFL readers have to take advantage of discourse knowledge as well. Comprehending written discourse implies that readers recognise the message being transmitted by using their pragmatic knowledge. They also need, in fact, to know the intended readership.
Keywords
written discourse ; shared knowledge ; comprehension ; cohesion ; coherence ; context ; pragmatics ; prior knowledge
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