Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): A New Research Technique for Assessing EFL Learners’ Oral Presentations | ||||
| مجلة کلية التربية - جامعة المنوفية | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 2015, Issue 1, March 2015, Page 174-233 PDF (834.14 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/muja.2015.109583 | ||||
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| Abstract | ||||
| The aim of this empirical study was introducing critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a new research technique for assessing oral presentations of EFL university learners Three voluntary EFL participants in Level 8 constituted the sample of the study. They were given each twenty minutes to deliver an oral presentation on the topic agreed upon with them beforehand. The participations were tape-recorded, transcribed, codified, analyzed and then interpreted in the realm of the dimensions of social discourse: speech analysis, processing analysis and social analysis related to language, power and ideology respectively. The findings revealed that CDA can be a research technique, an analytic tool and a procedural methodology that enables a vigorous assessment of social discourse and what is meant to describe and explain, since language is used as a form of social practice. The study provided a five-step cognitive map as well as CDA sheet with an assessment rubric in order to help the researchers concerned to follow when conducting a similar study. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| social discourse; critical discourse analysis; oral presentations; speech analysis; processing analysis; social analysis; unemployment | ||||
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