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PREFACE

Acknowledgement

Surprisingly, students in the post-graduate program (S3) admitted that DA is
a new thing for them. They said, “It is new for me”. When we asked whether they
had learned it before, they said, “We never studied it before”. Another comment
was “I have studied it but I did not know what DA was”. When we asked their
reasons, they said that they only learned about theories, no methods or practices.
One of them stated that the lecture of DA in only by dictating the theories, and no
or less practices at all.
Because of these facts, they needed extra work to do it. One of the students

told us that in their undergraduate program and master degree, they did not
obtain enough information and skills in doing DA. When we assigned them to do
tasks in DA, they said that it would be new experiences for them. However, it was
also a challenging job.
Therefore, we got impressions that students thought that DA was a rather
difficult subject. I guess that is because it is a new thing to study or because it
requires a high level of analysis.
We hope that this book will be beneficial for students programming the course
of DA, either to master degree or doctorate degree. In writing this book, we
accumulated some theories from available books, copied and read from the
internet. we also provided examples of doing DA, either spoken or written. Some
of them were taken from the students’ thesis that had been written based on DA
and from journal articles that had been published.
The e-book was written in six chapters and 13 activities. In the first chapter,
we provide theories and concepts that readers need to have as a starting point in
understanding DA. The second chapter is about some important concepts and
approaches for DA. The third chapter is about the disciplines which become the
scope of study in DA. Reading this chapter will give underlying ideas about what

fields to be discussed in order to use and do DA. The fourth part is about the areas
and issues in doing DA containing the setting or areas and the issues that may be
taken as a focus in doing DA. The fifth part of the book is about the methods of
doing DA, providing the steps in doing DA and aspects related to the process of
collecting and analyzing the discourse data. The sixth chapter is examples of
work in doing DA, which are very important as a model in doing DA. Then we
provide 13 activities for students to do. Exercises and examples of articles written
in DA are also provided.

The Authors

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