Which of the following tasks fails to develop students´ skill of recognizing discourse patterns?
Analyzing the structure of difficult sentences.
Checking the logic of the author's arguments.
Getting the scrambled sentences into a paragraph.
Marking out common openers to stories and jokes.
考查语篇教学。语篇是指一系列的语句和段落构成的语言整体，因此侧重的是句群和段落之间的关系。语篇通常分为会话语篇和段落语篇。A项是对一个句子内部结构的分析和理解，不属于语篇的范畴．故选A。