The republic of uzbekistan uzbek state world languages university english faculty III

Role of Newspapers in Students Life. Teaching English to a nonnative English speakers in somewhat challenging as it take a lot of time in understanding students learn or cram their syllabus and pass their examination but they fail in speaking, reading and writing and I think Newspapers can be vital in all their talents as they play an important role in this regard.
 It opens many new ways of discussion and conversation in classroom.
 Can discuss innumerable aspects of newspapers daily and can do a creative writing section on the spot every day.
 Working of a newspaper can give many new ideas and openings
 A lot of Job opportunities can be found through ‘Classified’ section.
 Daily discussion of ‘Headlines’ give a lot of knowledge and exposure.
 Games as ‘Treasure Hint’ from Newspaper can give vital information in pairs and increase feeling of sharing and team work.
 Can learn Photography and interest in the use of Camera.
 Writing of Articles will increase their knowledge of Grammar and creativity.
The newspapers reading can be introduced to any level from beginning to large lines to reading till end. In the beginning they will understand large lines them body of the news and after words Editorial and Articles. This will give them not only understanding of the language but their creativity will be at best and they
will try their level best to write.
The Advantages of Using Newspapers . When teacher selects materials for teaching, she has to decide whether the material is appropriate for her students or not. It can be judged appropriate if the material is meaningful for students or not. The material is more meaningful if it is related with students need, experience, interest, morality principle and their future.
A newspaper can be used as the basis for extensive practice in the four
language skills.³
“Newspapers have fulfilled this requirement. First, it can be used as cross
cultural medium, because newspapers probably the best single source of
information about the host culture and about the most important people in the
host society. It can be taught for something about psychology, habits and values
of people in the foreign culture. Second, the realistic characters and actions
may motivate students for reading. Third, newspapers can be used to teach
other language skills: listening, speaking and writing.⁴
Good teaching material can be used to teach many aspects of language. Again,
newspapers have this qualification. As stated by Joe Pemagbi:
“Newspaper can be used to teach many aspects of language and communication
skills. Editorials and gossip columns can be used to teach formal and informal
varieties of English; editorials and feature articles can provide passage for
summary and comprehension; letters to editor can demonstrate good features of
letter writing. A newspaper may contain material for teaching various types of
writing: description, analysis and synthesis, comparison and contrast and
process description; and they provide models of good written form:
paragraphing, topic sentence, introductions, conclusions, etc.⁵
Finally, newspapers present pedagogic structure. Evidence can be seen the
following example of texts about a similar theme, i.e. accident but taken from
different sources. One is taken from a textbook and another is taken from newspaper.⁶