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The main purpose of the present study is to explore the possibility on how effectively the discourse understanding of linguistics can be applied in English education. For this purpose, this study starts with the review of previous understanding of language. Restricted to the sentential boundary, traditional approaches to the linguistic analyses have had their own limitations to explain linguistic varieties. To get over sentential approaches to linguistic data, discourse-functional approach has been based on the real use of linguistic data. Linguistic understanding beyond sentence can provide the better insight into what had been ignored in linguistic analysis. Some discourse-based ideas have been introduced: context, communicative ability, discourse flow, etc. With this kind of background, the present study tries to look over how discourse-functional approach can be applied in real English education with some specific linguistic examples.