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Discourse Analysis and Writing/Reading Instruction*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

Ulla Maija Connor
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In the 1984 volume of the Annual review of applied linguistics, Grabe (1985) presented a comprehensive discussion of discourse analysis explaning its history, frameworks, models, taxonomies, and operationalizations. The approach of the present article complements Grabe's as a reivew with a more direct concern for instructional applications of discourse analysis in student reading and writing.

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Applications of Discourse Analysis
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 11 , March 1990 , pp. 164 - 180
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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