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**Subject Substantation**  Discourse Analysis is a 4-hour theoretical-practical subject for English students from the 8th semester at UNEFM. It deals with the studying of problems as the resources used to achieve coherence in a discourse, how the choice of articles, pronouns, and tenses affects the structure or meaning of the discourse. It also studies the relationship between the utterances in a discourse or the moves made by speakers to introduce a new topic as well as changing the topic or assert a higher role relationship to the other participants. ======  This subject is based on the study of different language research theories like The Speech Acts Theory (Austin, 1962 and Searle, 1981), The Cooperative Principle (Grice, 1975), The Structural Patterns, Discourse Coherence, Grammatical and Lexical Cohesion and Discourse Organization (Trimble, 1985). So, the information gathered through discourse analysis is very important for language teaching, since it would serve as a guide for the selection of the content, the texts, the examples and the activities to be included in the classroom in order to develop the communicative competence of the students.  Discourse Analysis provides us the opportunity of focusing on the prediction of students’ possible difficulties for understanding or producing different types of discourse, the demonstration that it is the message’s function that determines its form, and it puts the emphasis of English teaching on the communicative function of the language rather than its form.