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This paper is a critical study in Critical Discourse Analysis paradigm of a Textbook prescribed for intermediate students (Second Language Learners) in Government Colleges affiliated to the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan. The textbook contains selected texts to improve students reading skills integrated with writing activities. Each of the texts contains questions at the end to be answered. It is observed that the reading tasks are badly designed and there is no mental activity to involve students in the text discourse. The study focuses on critical discourse of the underlying text to inspect whether the text reading involves students in the critical discourse or not; it also attempts to analyze the Reading Text ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ to identify problems showing the gap and unawareness on the part of teachers and students regarding the critical discourse of the text in classroom reading context. It is also suggested that teachers need to bring about a change in their traditional teaching methods in order to tackle the issue. The awareness of critical discourse analysis is recommended on the part of the teachers in order to analyze and understand the real meaning of the text. In result, it may develop the critical approach which is very essential for a reader.

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This study observes that discourse analysis is a process in which reader’s and the listener’s mind operate on linguistic features of an utterance to grasp the proposed meaning of writers or speakers. That meaning is implied into words and sentences to be conveyed to the receiver operating his mind on the expectation of understanding the message. The conversation may lead to confusion if the receiver is unfamiliar with the syntactic structures and their functions in determining the meaning in context, because implied sociocultural and political context not only control text but also convey a hidden message.

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To cite this article: Ali, S., Kazemian, B. & Bughio, F. A. (2015). An investigation of the reading text ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ (Long Live Pakistan): Critical discourse analysis perspective. Education and Linguistics Research, 1(2), 42-51. DOI:10.5296/10.5296/elr.v1i2.8160.

Dr. Bahram Kazemian
Islamic Azad University Tabriz Branch

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