أطراس
Volume 5, Numéro 2, Pages 25-35
2024-07-15

Discourse Analysis As A Mediating Approach To Understand The Use Of English Adverbs In Literary Text

Authors : Amrani Djalal Eddine .

Abstract

Teaching grammar in the classroom has been always adopting new approaches and styles. Implementing literary texts, as an example, to enhance students’ grammatical competence has incredibly proved its efficacy for foreign English learners to fully understand most forms and uses of adverbs in English. This article investigates the way teachers implement literary texts to help teaching different kinds of adverbs, and how can, in turn, students stimulate their literary background knowledge and try to figure out how to accurately and contextually use and understand adverbs. This study takes some statements from the novel of Oliver Twist (1992), and nine students are chosen from University of Kasdi Merbah to analyze them through the lenses of discourse analysis. The result shows that literary texts can be of great help alongside with the use of discourse analysis in class to know how and where to place adverb, and students students afterwards become competent in dealing with English adverbs in literary text.

Keywords

literary text ; Adverbs ; Discourse Analysis ; Grammatical Competence ; University of Kasdi Merbah Learners