The Role of Schematic Knowledge in Developing EFL Students’ Written Discourse

Abstract

Discourse analysis came to cover several aspects of language use. It is an umbrella term that covers different fields related to linguistic and non-linguistics issue. It has evolved through several heterogonous disciplines like linguistics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and more. Discourse analysis occupies an important place in the EFL class. It contributes highly to develop learners’ communicative competence. Thus, for EFL learners to be communicatively competent, both in spoken and written, they have to develop their discourse competence, among other types of competence. Among the main components under the concept of discourse analysis, schematic knowledge plays a considerable role. The present paper attempts to search the role of schematic knowledge activation can pave the way to develop EFL students’ written discourse