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Formerly, language was looked at in isolation and the focus was on acquiring propositional and accuracy rules in the target language without considering the context in which it is embedded. A formal approach to language is not enough for FL learners to become members of the target discourse community. What is needed is a functional view of language that allows the learners to communicate socially. A discourse-based approach to language teaching is adopted which concentrates on meaning and communication. Its aim is to unlock the supra-sentential relationships. This approach aims at developing learners' discourse competence, a component accounting for describing the inter-sentential relationships that exist within a text. The present paper endeavors to develop learners' discourse competence through reading.
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