Tham khảo luận văn - đề án 'research report, "critical discourse analysis in teaching and learning foreign languages "', luận văn - báo cáo phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ĐẠI HỌC VINH TẠP CHÍ KHQA HỌC TẬP XXXVI số 1B-2007 CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING PHAN HƯƠNG a Abstract. Critical Discourse Analysis first emerged in the 1970s as a form of discourse and text analysis that drew attention to not only formal aspects of language in texts but also text production and interpretation and relation of texts to societal impulses and structures. It has been attracting the attention of many researchers both linguists and social researchers. In Vietnam however Critical Discourse Analysis CDA has not yet been known to linguists researchers teachers and learners of foreign languages until recently. This article aims at providing an overview of basic issues concerning Critical Discourse Analysis. In this article we will also briefly discuss the relevance of Critical Discourse Analysis in foreign language education. 1. Before addressing Critical Discourse Analysis let us recall the terms discourse and discourse analysis. Cook 1989 distinguishes between two different kinds of language as potential objects for language study. The first kind is sentence the object for the study of how the rules of language work. The second kind of language is used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent p. 6 . This type of language is called discourse. It is agreed upon by many scholars that discourse is language-in-use as opposed to formal aspects of language and discourse analysis DA is the search for how stretches of language become meaningful and unified. In the evolution of linguistics there have been two main approaches to language the first one is formal approach being concerned with language out of context taking the rules of language as an isolated object and the other one is functional approach dealing with language in context Cook 1989 12 . Discourse analysis is a branch of the second approach. Discourse analysis is carried out by not only linguists but also by researchers in many other disciplines such as
