DISCOURSE ANALYSIS an‎d PRAGMATICS IN THE TEACHING OF GRAMMAR: A NEED FOR INTEGRATION

This paper sets as its main purpose to bring some of those insights fromdiscourse analysis and pragmatics into the English grammar classroom at the university in an attempt to help learners to become conscious of the processes that operate when they use language. In order to investigate the English clauses, declarative, interrogative and imperative, the two areas mentioned above are brought into a symbiotic relationship which draws upon a communicative orientation. The main leading principle is that when the grammar of language is taught for communication, clauses or any other grammatical items are held as resources for the creation and interpretation of discourse in context. The grammatical system is, thus, learnt for the sake of communicating