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

The Impact of newspapers on Teaching Language Skills . Unlike the prescribed textbooks, newspapers provide the latest information every day and the teachers as well as the learners of English get a chance to enhance their language skills enormously. Newspapers are useful for the teachers to teach the language skills of English to the learners effectively. The learners of English find variety of news items and various columns related to infinite fields.
Instead of adopting material from international newspapers, the teachers can try with the local English newspapers and later they can refer to the international ones. Since the topics in the local newspapers that are published in their cities, they will have more impact on the learners than those that are published by the American or British press. The learners develop their reading, writing and speaking skills using the newspapers in the classroom.
By using the newspapers, the learners will have a good practice of how to comprehend the material, how to find the central idea, how to compare readings, how to compare the same news published in different papers, how to increase vocabulary, how to ask questions, how to frame sentences, how to write a good summary, how to ask a ingenious question and so on. Moreover, the learners will also certainly employ several critical thinking skills since they interact with the authentic material that is available in the newspapers. ²²
While the teachers of English adopt material for their learners, they should mainly concentrate on the needs and interests of the learners so that the learners’ motivational levels will be raised. Furthermore, the teachers should adopt these materials according to the learners’ difficulty level. So, the materials used in the classroom should be appropriate for the learners in terms of language level and the teachers should also prepare tasks according to the level of the learners. When the learners find the material is too difficult to understand, then they may be discouraged and they do not show any interest on the given material. Hence, it is the responsibility of the teachers to select the materials from the newspapers to create interest among the learners and involve them in doing the tasks in a congenial atmosphere.²³
Though collecting the relevant material from the English newspapers is quite a difficult task for the teachers of English, it is worth doing so because English newspapers are published every day and the usage of English language in newspapers is entirely different from the prescribed textbooks. The language used in the prescribed textbooks is fixed and it lasts for a long time, whereas, the language used in the English newspapers is always new with latest topics and current events that appear with a variety of usage. Though it is time consuming for the teachers to prepare suitable material for their learners, the learners participate in the activities with more enthusiasm once the tasks are assigned. Collecting materials is an ongoing process and the teachers collect materials from newspapers such as headlines, weather reports, short stories, short articles, advertisement, pictures, biographies, etc
The English teachers should be very cautious while organizing material that is adopted from the newspapers and arrange the material under specific groupings such as headlines, titles, advertisements, etc., otherwise, under topic cinema, sports, relationship, titles, level of learners, etc. Illustrations and photographs are of immense use for English language teachers and they have to use these in their regular classrooms. Even the teachers of English as well as the learners find it difficult to make use of the material adopted form the newspapers, the material will be more beneficial for the students since it is authentic. The role of the teachers of English in selecting the newspapers plays a crucial role in developing the language skills of the leaners. Thus, the teachers should select the newspapers that create interest among the learners so that the learners are highly motivated and interested in reading them without skipping anything. While designing the tasks also, the teachers have to pay special attention on grading the tasks, but not the material. There is a well-known maxim in language teaching which says, “grade the task – not the material”. Tasks have to be designed to suit the level of the learners and then the learner participation will be highly appreciable. Even if the material in the textbooks is more difficult, the teachers should prepare tasks that are more convenient and explicable for the learners to perform well without any further difficulty. The primary key of successful completion of the tasks involves mainly on the involvement of the learners in pre-activity, techniques adopted while-activity preparation, in the selection of materials and in carefully designing thetasks. Therefore, the teachers of English should concentrate more on the preparation of tasks while using the material from the newspapers even if it is a painstaking and time consuming process.²⁴
Newspapers have a great impact on teaching English language skills to the learners of second or foreign language. The teachers of English can use the newspapers to develop their learners’ language skills by adopting several techniques and approaches that are more suitable for the second or foreign language learners. While adopting the material from the newspapers, the teachers should take utmost care and the preference should be given to the importance and usefulness of the selected news item and the learners’ interests.At the initial stages, the teachers have to select the newspapers that are in easy and simple language so that the learners participate actively in the given tasks with high motivation and a lot of enthusiasm. Furthermore, the burden of the teacher also reduces since the learners can understand the language easily. At this juncture, the teachers of English can ask the learners to go through the newspaper carefully and find the topics of their interest to check the knowledge of the learners’ reading skills. Here, the teachers can take the opinion of the students in selecting the topics and then the selected topics are given to the learners. The learners work on the given task in groups and give responses to the questions. ²⁵
Newspapers are also very important to develop the writing skills among the second or foreign language learners. The teachers can divide the classroom into groups and give a newspaper to each group and ask them to write a summary of it. Then the learners work with their peers in the group and complete the task within the stipulated time. Once the task is over, the teacher invites the group leader to present it to the whole class. This activity enhances the learners’ writing as well as presentation skills. Later, the English teachers can also use thesome news itemsto write reports also. Furthermore, they are also useful in writing descriptions about some cartoons, comics, great personalities and some important pictures that appear in newspapers. The teachers can also take a small paragraph by changing the order of the sentences and ask the learners to arrange the sentences in the logical order. Then the learners work in groups and arrange the sentences in an order and it develops the learners’ logical thinking. Also, the teachers can take a news article where the information is scrambled and give those paragraphs to the learners and ask them to arrange in order.²⁶
Based on the above quotes, I would like to draw such a conclusion. Foreign
learning languages ​​is a somewhat complicated process. Properly selected manual or materials in it will improve the language learning process and increase its effectiveness. Increases students' mastery ability.
When it comes to using newspaper articles in class, many remember an exercise designed to develop reading skills.
But this is a misconception. This is because English language articles are used to develop reading, writing, speaking, listening skills and English vocabulary and grammar.
For example, if popular scientific words in a newspaper article selected as a textbook guide serve as a dictionary, their sentence structure, tense, and inversion events will help you learn grammar.
Proper use of words helps to develop the ability to write diagrams, letters and official documents, articles related to the exchange.
Discussing the idea understood in the article, oral analysis develops the ability to speak English fluently. The process of finding the meaning of new words in a proverb in a dictionary can also be learned by transcribing them.
Students also learn about cultural, political, social, and economic news from around the world by reading newspaper articles. This further develops their ability to think and understand. This leads to an increase in knowledge. They develop the ability to understand the world, to accurately assess what is happening. But just as there is a good side to everything, there is also a bad side. On the downside, they may even read age-inappropriate news.