Research article the role of newspapers and magazines to teach english in the

particularly, 
skimming, 
scanning, vocabulary, comprehension skills. 
The teachers of English can also implement 
some pre-activity and while-activity techniques that 
are very useful for the second or foreign language 
learners. The teachers of English can give the learners 
any selected news item that he is going to teach in 
the next class and ask the learners to find some new 
vocabulary from it and summarize the news item at 
home. Then the learners come out with their own 
answers and these are discussed in the classroom. 
The teachers can also take a news item without any 
headlines and ask the learners to go through it and 
suggest a suitable title to it. At this juncture, the 
teaches can use brainstorming technique to involve 
the students in discussion so that the learners 

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participate very actively as there is no hard and fast 
rule to give an exact answer. Hence, the learners 
come out innumerable titles in a free and 
independent atmosphere. The learners can develop 
critical thinking skills as well as speaking skills. 
Furthermore, the teachers can also show the learners 
a picture of a famous person or an incident that has 
happened and ask them to say something about it. 
Or else, the teachers can show them a comic or 
cartoon and ask them to describe it. These 
techniques are certainly more useful for the second 
or foreign learners to enhance their speaking skills. 
The teachers of English can also take the latest and 
burning topics from the newspapers and ask the 
learners to prepare a short summary of the news in 
three or four sentences so that it really improves the 
learners’ reading as well as writing skills. Then the 
teachers can also ask the learners to present the 
summary of the news item to the class and the 
learners develop their speaking skills as well as 
presentation skills. Later, the teachers can take the 
same news from three or four different newspapers 
and ask the learners to compare the difference 
among 
them 
in 
presentation, 
vocabulary, 
grammatical structure and so on. The learners work 
in groups and come out with different answers. This 
activity surely enhances the learners’ critical thinking 
and reasoning skills and the learners also know the 
standard of the language used by different 
newspapers. 
The journalists of newspapers always try to 
extract more information to recreate that has 
happened in the form of stories and they create 
more interest among the learners. In reality, 
newspapers witness the happenings all over the 
globe and present the information exactly without 
any modifications. Since the information published in 
the newspapers is updated every day, the teachers 
can use them to find innovative ways of teaching 
English through activities. Using newspapers, the 
teachers can develop the learners’ critical as well as 
analytical thinking outstandingly. Textbooks are 
updated after several years whereas newspapers are 
updated every day and present the latest 
information.Newspapers 
help 
the 
learners 
understand the transmission of culture and reflect 
changes in the English language. With a wide reading 
of newspapers, learners understand the meaning of 
culture well. Since newspapers represent many 
variations in written English, the learners can learn 
how to write English with different styles and a lot of 
variety. The teachers of English use newspapers 
extensively to teach the learners of different levels. 
Most teachers use newspapers to enhance the 
learners’ writing skills, reading comprehension, 
vocabulary, grammar, reading and interpreting maps, 
charts, diagrams, analytical and critical thinking skills 
and so on. There are numerous standard newspapers 
that are useful for the language teachers to select 
some important and valuable materials for the 
English teachers to try out activities in the ESL/EFL 
classrooms. The teachers can consult some 
newspapers such as The Hindu, Times of India, 
National Herald, The Wall Street, The Sun, Daily 
Mirror, The New York Times, The Guardian, The 
Washington Post, The Sidney Morning Herald, The 
Asahi Shimbun, Dawn, Zaman, The Daily Telegraph, 
Windsor Express, Daily Express, London Daily, The 
Times, Birmingham Post, Manchester Times, Asian 
Times, Evening Chronicle and so on and make use of 
the essential material to enhance the language skills 
of the learners enormously in the ESL/EFL 
classrooms.The teachers should select the relevant 
materials from the newspapers and organize them 
according to the needs abilities of the learners using 
the internet. Since there are many advantages of 
using newspapers as authentic materials in the 
ESL/EFL classrooms, the teachers are advised to 
choose the useful and interesting material and 
develop them innovatively according to the 
classroom situation.