The Role of Discourse Analysis in the Enhancement of Teaching Reading Comprehension in Iraqi EFL Classes

The study aims at investigating the role of discourse analysison the performance of Iraqi EFL learners readingcomprehension to determine what areas of discourse analysis are relevant to teaching EFL reading in the Departments of Englishat the University of Kufa. The researcher selected 100 EFLstudents at the mentioned departments basing on a preliminaryEnglish test and randomly divided them into two classes , eachwith 50 students .The researcher taught reading comprehensionto both classes with the only difference that discourse analysisbasedreading instructions was applied in one class, while theaudio-lingual method is followed in the other class .All classeshave been exhibited to (8) texts selected from the given resource.Thus, they got equal opportunity. Post-test has been conductedto both classes to investigate the effectiveness of applyingdiscourse analysis strategies on the skill of reading in aclassroom .The results showed a wide difference between thetwo, whereby, the one which was exhibited to discourse analysistools, gained higher fluency in reading than the other class.