Introduction. Discourse Analysis (DA) is the analysis of language in use (Brown and Yule 1983). It also examines how stretches of language, considered in their full textual, social, and psychological context, become meaningful and unified for their users. It provides insight into the problems and processes of language use and language learning, and is therefore of great importance to language teachers (Cook 1989). All micro-skills have direct relationship with DA. Therefore, language teachers have immediate interest in …showed first 75 words of 2480 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2480 total…J. (1987). Methodology in TESOL: A Book of Readings. New York: Newbury House Publishers. McCarthy, M. (1991). Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers. Cambridge University Press. New York. McCarthy, M. and Carter, R. (1994). Language as Discourse: Perspectives for Language Teaching. Longman Group Limited. England Schiffrin, D. (2002). Approaches to Discourse. Blackwell Publishers. USA. Stubbs, M. (1983). Discourse analysis: The sociolinguistic analysis of natural language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Widdowson, H.G. (1996). Aspects of language teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.