The use of critical doscourse-analysis in foreign language teaching in higher educational institution

Norman Fairclough's critical discourse-analysis is briefly examined in the article. Herewith those elements of Norman's Fairclough critical discourse-analysis are emphasized that can be relevant to the discourse-analysis of ecological texts. Norman Fairclough offers to consider discourse in three aspects: discourse as a text, discourse as a discursive practice, discourse as a social practice. Discourse as a text - is a research aspect involving the analysis of internal relations in the original text. Discourse as a discursive practice considers the dialectical relationship of analyzed discourse with other discourses. The main concepts for description of these communiques are intertextuality and recontextualization. Discourse analysis as a social practice focuses on identification of relationship between a text and social reality, social practices, and structures. Norman Fairclough's critical discourse-analysis is adapted to Ecology, the method of critical discourse-analysis of ecological texts is developed (ecological discourse analysis) and the English language teaching technique is developed on its basis. Ecological discourse analysis encompasses the following stages: original text analysis, intertextual analysis, conclusions. Original text analysis deals with a single unit of analysis; it can be a word, a phrase, a sentence, a text passage and a text as a whole. The analysis includes two stages. In the first stage of analysis, the attention of students focuses on the revealing of semantic content which the author of the text would like to place in the mental space of a reader. In the second stage a student should find out whether the text has the other variants of interpretation distinct from the main semantic content emphasizing by the author. Intertextual analysis makes it possible to understand other variants of original text interpretation, externally, in the process of matching and comparison with other texts and statements. Original text analysis and intertextual analysis are invited to do with the help of socially-critical approach. We give the following definition to the socially-critical approach: "socially critical-approach-is a critical review with a deep immersion into the history of all the social and ecological consequences which can be the result of the environmental activities described in the text and identification of possible social customers". The conclusions are the result of discourse-analysis. Foreign language teaching technique with the use of ecological discourse-analysis is summarized briefly. The technique consists of the following stages: introduction classes, face-to-face classes on discourse-analysis, homework assignment on discourse-analysis.

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