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

Don’t...
 Make a song and dance about teaching words like headline, editorial, column, leader. Is it useful for learners?
 Assume learners are interested in British, American, Canadian or Australian culture, particularly tabloid gossip. The British
tabloids, for example, are a culturally specific type of newspaper and are not universal.
 D well on comparative style and discourse features of tabloid papers versus broadsheets. These are often either obvious or of
interest only to journalists and media students.
 Assume what you find interesting in a newspaper will interest your learners.
 Spend ages blanking out words (if you want to do this type of exercise get your learners to white out words themselves and test
each other).”¹⁰
Education World outlines ten reasons why newspapers are effective classroom teaching tools. Such as:
1. They are an adult medium that students of all ability levels can be proud to be seen reading.
2. They deal in what’s happening here and now, providing motivation for reading and discussion.
3. They make learning fun
4. They are extremely flexible and adaptable to all curriculum areas ad grade levels.
5. They bridge the gap between the classroom and the “real” world.
6. They build good reading habits that will last a lifetime.
7. They can be cut, marked, clipped, pasted, filed and recycled.
8. They give everyone something to read-news, sports, weather, etc.
9. They are a cost-effective way to educate.
10. They contain practical vocabulary and the best models for clear and concise writing. ¹¹
Ajayi emphasizes that newspaper are a highly rich source of information; convey local national and international affairs, up-to-date information on political, health, music, sports, entertainment, arts, fashion, law, economics, medicine, science and technology issues. ¹²
This implies that newspaper provides information on different spheres of life and provides appropriate linguistic applications. In language teaching, it offers the teacher authentic, practical and easily assessable materials, it provides activity- based teaching and learning situations, self-instruction, freedom and learner centeredness. Using newspapers in class provides real life situations of effectively acquiring and using English as a communication tool ¹³.
Using newspapers in the classroom improves vocabulary skills, increases knowledge and makes learning fun and more interactive. Since newspaper articles are written in final draft status, with few errors, they are good reference for teaching students (that is, they can help students to check their own writing for grammar and punctuation errors and can allow them to engage on studies on correct subject verb agreement, capitalization, punctuation, summarizing and smooth transformation of ideas).¹⁴
According to Clandfield and Foord , since newspapers are current and contain of a lot of information written by experienced writers, they consist of different kinds of texts such as narrative, stories, letters, advertisements, reports etc.¹⁵
Clandfield and Foord opine that using newspaper to teach reading and writing demonstrates the concepts of the structures of English language. It helps students to see realistic examples of the practical applications of grammar and comprehension that can be used in reading and writing experiences in and outside the classroom. ¹⁶
The aim of this paper is to provide exercises, based on different levels of learners, using newspapers to develop the speaking, reading and writing skills of English as a second language. For beginners, the newspaper headlines containing recognizable symbols, numbers, colours and photographs can convey information that students can easily understand. At the intermediate level, the newspaper provides exposure to print, graphic devices and to punctuation and sentence structure. At the advanced level, learners can read newspapers to skim and scan some articles, read some articles completely and ignore those parts that are of little interest to them. The following is a detailed analysis of exercises that can be done with a newspaper to develop speaking, reading and writing skills at different levels.¹⁷