In the light of the reading theory on linguistics,this paper discusses the application of discourse analysis —— macro-structure and micro-structure to the intensive teaching in College English.

Schema theory and van Dijk s theory of macro-structure,which originated from cognitive psychology,provide a new approach to foreign language teaching.

For one thing,a discourse title is conceptually contiguous to the macro-structure of the discourse under the title,and the macro-structure is conceptually mapped and profiled into the title following some macro-rules.

Fractal analysis on macrostructure characteristics of concrete materials;

Training of Discourse Macrostructure Strategy in English Reading Teaching;

Article s Macrostructure and EFL Writing Teaching;

Through analyzing the micro and macro structure of the text, discourse analysis helps the reader to understand the article more completely and more deeply, thus to accelerate the reading speed and to improve the ability of reading comprehension.

This current paper addresses the implications of macro structure for sense relationship among linguistic items, especially among the items hierarch.

Some focus on the macro structure such as productivity and production relations,economic basis and superstructure.

This paper bases its discussion of redundancy and brevity in translation on an analytical look at the interaction between propositional structure and lexical-syntactic structure.