introduction

The core position of discourse in English teaching was emphasized, and it was pointed out that the integrated teaching method advocated by the 2017 edition of the General High School English Curriculum Standards aims to achieve the integration of language, culture, and thinking through discourse teaching. The mechanism, path, and strategy of discourse teaching are the key to teaching transformation, and teachers need to deeply analyze discourse and design effective teaching activities. The goal of discourse teaching is to cultivate students' ability to understand and generate discourse, with function or meaning as the center, guiding students to establish logical semantic connections between discourse elements, and achieving deep understanding, meaning generation, and ability transformation of discourse. The teaching approach includes analyzing the macro organization and micro structure of discourse, integrating language learning into discourse comprehension and generation.

Basic characteristics of discourse

Emphasis was placed on the importance of understanding discourse characteristics for effective implementation of discourse teaching. As a semantic unit, discourse is composed of phonetics, vocabulary, and grammar. The paper lists seven basic characteristics, including coherence, consistency, purposefulness, acceptability, informativeness, situationality, and intertextuality, which are respectively related to the coherence between language form and meaning, expression themes, reader attitudes, information appropriateness, language consensus, sociality, and computational processing. Understanding these characteristics helps teachers design teaching activities that are consistent with the characteristics of the discourse, and delve into the essence of the discourse and the core of subject knowledge.

Discourse teaching mechanism

In depth exploration of the three core mechanisms of discourse teaching: deconstruction mechanism, advancement mechanism, and implementation mechanism. Firstly, discourse analysis, as a deconstructive mechanism, helps to understand the meaning and communicative function of discourse through internal structural analysis and external contextual analysis. Internal analysis focuses on conceptual function, interpersonal function, and discourse function, while external analysis involves language context, situational context, and cultural context. Secondly, as an advanced mechanism, the hierarchical classification model divides discourse comprehension into five levels, including literal comprehension, recombination, speculative comprehension, evaluation, and appreciation, to promote students' understanding of discourse from shallow to deep. In addition, classroom interaction serves as an implementation mechanism, constructing knowledge, learning language, deconstructing and constructing discourse through two-way communication and turn taking between teachers, students, and students. The article introduces three interactive modes: Scaffolding interaction cycle, Think girl share, and Role playing an author, which correspond to discourse based, in-depth, and beyond discourse comprehension activities, respectively, aiming to improve students' classroom participation and promote their participation in behavior, emotion, and cognition.

The Path and Strategy of Discourse Teaching

We have delved into the paths and strategies of discourse teaching, summarizing them into three levels: discourse based understanding, in-depth discourse understanding, and beyond discourse understanding. The path and strategy based on discourse understanding includes analysis of important details, main idea, and sequence of event development, involving micro analysis of the semantic function of verbs, nouns or noun phrases, prepositions or adverb phrases, as well as macro analysis of situational context, discourse patterns, and discourse types. The path and strategy for in-depth discourse understanding include analysis of mood, modality, and intention systems, as well as deep analysis and judgment of the author's implied meaning. The path and strategy of transcending discourse comprehension focuses on the evaluation and appreciation of discourse content, involving the cognitive skill framework of evaluation systems and critical thinking.

conclusion

Emphasize the crucial role of discourse teaching in cultivating core competencies, and promote the development of key subject abilities and communication skills through the integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students achieve a transition from passive to active in discourse learning, resulting in richer reading outcomes, more effective strategies, and more systematic knowledge. Discourse teaching breaks through teaching bottlenecks, constructs a path of integrated development of language, thinking, and culture, emphasizes the cycle of reading and writing and content integration, and improves the comprehensive practical effect of language. From the perspective of deep learning, this model promotes the integration of learning and thinking, as well as the integration of practice and learning, initiating the process of internal transformation among students, achieving the integration of learning and application, assisting in the internalization and transfer of knowledge, and promoting students' independent discovery and deep learning.