Name : Muhammad Imtihan Taufan

Class : 5TP-3
NIM : E1D019145

Critical Review
Discourse Analysis Midterm

Discourse Analysis Grammar (by Group 1)

Spoken and written discourses display grammatical connexions between individual
clauses and utterances. For our purposes, these grammatical links can ,be classified under
three broad typ 7- (or co-reference; see Brown and Yule 1983: 192), elfipsislsubstihthq llad
conjunction.
In general, making this power point is good because it covers all the points from the
reference book. But in a writing of course there are still some things that need to be
underlined as evaluation material so that the future can be better
The weakness of this power point is :
1. There are several points that still need further explanation
2. At some points, you can still add a little explanation about these points so that readers
don't get confused or hang when reading
that's the only two shortcomings that I can get so far, their paper can also be said to
be quite well structured.

Discourse Analysis and Vocabulary (by Group 2)

Description of lexical cohesion. Related vocabulary items occur across clause and
sentence boundaries in written texts and across act, move and turn boundaries in speech and
are a major characteristic of coherent discourse.
In this material, I can't say much, because the material presented has covered a lot of
things and the explanation is enough to explain all the points.
Strengths :
1. Very well structured
2. In each content or point, the explanation is quite detailed and includes everything that
needs to be explained
For the downside, I didn't find it in this material
Discourse Analysis and Phonology (by Group 3)
Traditional pronunciation teaching has found its strength in the ability of linguists to
segment the sounds of language into discrete items called pbonemes which, when used in the
construction of words, produce meaningful contrasts with other words
Almost the same as the previous one, in the material this time, I didn't find many
shortcomings, on the contrary, the advantages I found included :
1. The content is very well structured and very well explained
2. The explanation of every point has covered the explanation extensively
3. The presenter also did a good job when presenting this Material
That’s all that i can say about this Material or Topic, Overall it's very good and can still be
compared to the reference book

Written Language (by Group 5)

Chapter 1 touched on the notions of coherence, clause relations and textual patterns in
written language; Chapter 2 explored cohesion, theme and rheme and tense and aspect, taking
many of its examples from written texts; and Chapter 3 examined lexical cohesion and text-
organising vocabulary, again exemplifying with a number of written text extracts. Even
Chapter 5, although it was concerned with spoken language, made points that are relevant to
written discourse: the active listener and the active reader are engaged in very similar pro-
cesses. Also transferable from the rest of this book are two general prin- ciples: that not
everything described by discourse analysts is relevant to or may have any immediate
applications in language teaching, and, on the other hand, that the more we can learn from
discourse analysts as to how different texts are organised and how the process of creating
written text is realised at various levels, from small units to large, the more likely we are to be
able to create authentic materials and activities for the classroom.
In general, the power points made by group 5 are very good, and you could say they
cover many important aspects or things that are the main discussion in this discussion about
written language, I can hardly find any drawbacks, maybe it's just a lack of some explanation
only in their power point, but at the time of presentation, The structure is also very well
structured in the explanation of each power point, if there is an explanation that is considered
lacking, they add their own explanation. they also add their own explanation regarding the
explanation that is lacking in the existing points, of course, all of them refer to the supporting
evidence (Discourse Analysis for Language teachers by Michael McCarthy) you could say,
power point from group 5 this is already very very good in my opinion