This course aims to provide students with an orientation to theory and practice of critical discourse analysis as part of research methodology-related courses.  Topics include: Critical paradigm of research as the basis of CDA, definition of critical discourse analysis (CDA), basic principles or tenets of CDA, perspectives or approaches to CDA, the place of CDA in educational research, CDA and text analysis from systemic functional linguistics. The course will also offer the students with practice of CDA, analysing texts using the framework of CDA. Along the course scaffolding will be provided under explicit teaching and apprenticeship.