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

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Vol.6 Issue 2 
2019 
Magazines are learner-friendly and they are 
with full of pictures and colours so that they are 
attracted by the young learners. They create interest 
among the learners and they also serve as a tool to 
motivate the learners’ reading skills enormously. 
Magazines also enrich the learners’language skills, 
grammar and their both passive and active 
vocabulary. Furthermore, magazines are ultimately 
used for the culture that they transmit. Since 
magazines serve as a nation’s mirror, the learners of 
the English language will be in a position to contact 
with the culture of the language that they study from 
the printed media in general and magazines in 
particular.As magazines focus mainly on the 
information about culture, the learners get a chance 
to study and know more about their own culture. For 
example, the articles about how some specific 
holidays are celebrated in their areas that speak the 
learners’ language. the language teachers as well as 
learners are suggested to flip through some useful 
language learning magazines such as Reader’s Digest, 
Just English, ELI Language Magazine, Scholastic 
Scope, Babel, The Language Magazine, The Illustrated 
Weekly, Unravel, The British Council Magazine, EFL 
Magazine, Just English and so on. Hence, the teachers 
of English should make use of the materials from all 
the available and useful magazines to prepare 
interesting and needed materials for the learners in 
order to involve them learning activities that take 
place in the ESL/EFL classrooms. 
Since newspapers and magazines provide 
latest information and the language used in them is 
different from that of the language used in the 
textbooks, the teachers of English should make use of 
the appropriate material in order to motivate and 
attract the ESL/EFL learners.
CONCLUSION 
In this paper, an attempt has been made to 
focus on the role of newspapers and magazines to 
teach English in the ESL/EFL classrooms. First of all, 
this paper has discussed the importance of authentic 
material used in the English classrooms and how the 
teachers of English use them as additional teaching 
materials to enhance the language skills of the 
ESL/EFL learners. Later, this paper has also disclosed 
the effective use of media in education. Then this 
paper hasalso emphasized on the role of newspapers 
and magazines to teach English in the ESL/EFL 
classrooms. Finally, this paper has also given valuable 
recommendations both to the teachers and the 
learners of ESL/EFL teachers to enhance their 
teaching as well as learning skills in the present 
setting. 
It is a known fact that media plays a vital 
role in teaching English in the ESL/RFL classrooms. 
Therefore, the main focus has been laid on print 
media, especially on newspapers and magazines, in 
developing teaching materials for the learners of 
ESL/EFL classrooms. Since newspapers and magazines 
always publish the latest news and information, they 
are so useful for the English teachers to motivate and 
create interest among the learners. Therefore, the 
teachers should adopt materials form the available 
English newspapers and magazines according to the 
needs and interests of the learners so that the 
learners will pay more attention on the subject and