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Fictitious Discourse in Language Teaching Dimitrios Thanasoulas Introduction A cursory glance over old and newly produced EFL coursebooks attests to the assertion that too much reliance has been placed on the traditional "text" format as the primary source of information about how language is used and functions. ere! it will be argued that English language teaching is deprived of discourse as "live language" and "grammar above the sentence!" being characterised instead by a slavish adherence to "form!" which leads to stilted language and other features that are not typical of natural language use. uch of the discussion that ensues is based on illrood#s article! "$iscourse for %eaching &urposes" '())(*! which appeared in +esearch ethodology, $iscourse in %eaching A Foreign Language '%ambov -tate niversity*. $efining discourse $iscourse can be defined as a pattern of verbal behaviour but! at the same time! it can be viewed as a verbal form of social  behaviour! an instance of communicative language use! and th e  process of unfolding an idea into a text '/rown 0 1ule! 23456 7ook! 23436 8unan! 2335*. According to illrood '())(*! the difference between discourse and text is that discourse is a "live language!" whereas a text is a "monument to life." 9$iscourse  processes can certainly be reconstructed from texts! but one needs insight and intuition in order to interpret movement cast in stone# 'ibid.*. any texts! however perfect! fail to give readers a true  picture of how language works. A v ery serious problem in EFL teaching! which the present paper sets out to explore! is the unfair

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