The Application of CDA Model to Investigate EFL Students’ Literary Awareness

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the effect of explicit teaching of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) model by using Furlough’s three dimensions model on EFL students’ literary awareness. It is attempted to explore any change in the students’ awareness in revealing the implied meaning of the texts after critical instruction through CDA techniques. The participants were 65 undergraduate students of college of education for human sciences, fourth year at University of Diyala and Garmian. They were assigned into two groups of 30 students.  It hypothesized  that there is no statistically significant differences between the mean score of the achievement of the experimental group and the control one.The results revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control group after being instructed   through CDA.