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What is Discourse-Based Language Teaching about?

This document discusses traditional approaches to language teaching that focus on isolated words, phrases, and sentences rather than viewing language as discourse used in context. It provides two examples - an English test for junior students focusing on filling in words and their opposites, and an English cloze test for second language learners focusing on inserting single words. The document argues these examples adopt a static view of language that ignores how it is used interactively in real contexts. I

Author

Karenina Manzano

Language

EN