Integrating Grammar and Discourse: A New Approach to Language Teaching Gafurova Robiya Nasim qizi

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Discourse competence plays a crucial role in English Language Teaching (ELT) as it forms the foundation for effective communication and language learning. It encompasses the ability to construct coherent and cohesive discourse, understand text features, apply construction strategies, and possess knowledge of academic writing. Developing discourse competence aids in mastering academic writing, enhancing communicative skills, and understanding language structures in context. Furthermore, integrating media-discursive competence into learning materials can improve students' conversational skills and motivate learning. This article compares discourse competence with grammar skills, how it works if the learners use them together in speech. In the classroom, discourse competence is essential for language teachers as it influences learners' engagement and the learning process. Overall, discourse competence is a fundamental component of ELT that facilitates effective communication, language learning, and teaching practices with correct grammatical structures and relevant knowledge. Keywords: Discourse competence, tense, grammatical structures, cohesion. Since one of the requirements in students' professional Introduction: In recent years, the widespread and activities is to have a perfect command of the language, continuously developing innovative technologies and the competence-based education model holds internet resources have become a key factor in the significant importance. [1] This allows for a more advancement of every field, including education. The effective and cost-efficient learning process with the stages and methods of foreign language learning now help of innovative information communication differ significantly from those of the past. Unlike technologies. traditional teaching methods, modern approaches allow students to learn languages in interesting and Students' discourse competence is essentially a accelerated ways, as well as enhance and even assess systematic accumulation of specific knowledge and their knowledge independently. These advantages skills. These knowledge and skills are crucial factors for arise from the strong competition among internet achieving communicative goals and include not only resources, which are constantly being updated and lexical, syntactic, and grammatical rules but also gaining relevance. stylistic, genre-related, cultural, social, psychological, emotional, coherence and harmony aspects. [2] It is Currently, higher education specialists are also important to note that the concepts of discourse, abandoning traditional methods and keeping pace with speech acts, and communication fundamentally differ the times by thoroughly studying and implementing the from one another. The distinction between discourse latest teaching methodologies and knowledge. skills and speech abilities lies in the fact that speech Additionally, Uzbekistan's expansion of international abilities aim to address specific communicative tasks in relations has increased the importance of foreign managing language skills: writing, speaking, reading, languages in social, economic fields, and intercultural and so on. However, the concept of discourse is communication, making language learning a broader because it encompasses extra linguistic fundamental principle. Therefore, there is a need to factors. In previous scholarly works on the update and align existing language teaching methods, development of the concept of communicative tools, and approaches with contemporary demands. American Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity Research 195 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ajsshr American Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity Research (ISSN: 2771-2141) competence, Canale further explains sociolinguistic structures of knowledge related to discourse competence, which includes discourse competence. [3] competence (social genre, cognitive genre, and This approach allows for the analysis of written and linguistic). The social genre corresponds to the spoken texts in various genres, examining their classification of an entire text based on its social grammatical forms and meanings together. Such purpose, that is, its socially recognized structure. As research is crucial for designing curricula based on mentioned above, discourse competence involves written and spoken texts in communication. Discourse knowing how to interpret larger content and how to competence is a significant component of connect and expand sentences coherently and communicative competence, which is essential for cohesively. students during academic writing and reading For effective communication, speakers must processes. It is natural that developing this competence understand how language is used in social contexts. poses certain challenges for many ESP students. Each language has its own specific usage rules, meaning Previously, many English as Foreign Language (EFL) that speakers must know when, how, and to what teachers adhered to