English news paper can be used as a powerful tool to facilitate the learners with the most appropriate text in various language learning activities. The paper has the latest information, information on the contemporary events, advertisements of the available gadgets, services and thus the young learners are interested to know about them. This enthusiasm can be blended with the day to day class work to improve their language skills. The language used in ‘Eritrea Profile' is accurate and exampled to imitate by the learners of the language. So it can be used to: 1) empower English teachers and tutors to incorporate standard, effective and popular English into their teaching practice
2) prepare effective teaching-learning material for day to day class
3) provide ample opportunity for the learner to learn the language with self-study material even after the class.
2) prepare effective teaching-learning material for day to day class
3) provide ample opportunity for the learner to learn the language with self-study material even after the class.
Against this backdrop, the present paper focuses on how teachers can prepare their own material to improve linguistic proficiency. The following are a few strategies to unleash the potentiality of the tool:
Listening Skill: Activities like news paper reading and activities like Just a minute / short extempore speech based on the day's events would improve the learners' superficial and focused listening skills.
Speaking Skill: Activities like debates, speeches expect students to have suitable information. News paper provides ample material to encourage students who need content to speak. Once the student has the information, s/he will come forward to speak on contemporary issues by adding his/ her views.
Reading Skill: Rich material can be gathered for various activities to improve Scanning, Skimming, Intensive reading and extensive reading focusing the learners' attention on advertisements / sports columns / day to day incidents, Technological developments / educational articles and arts related articles respectively.
Writing Skill: The teacher can use the headlines or chosen articles in well-designed activities to improve the grammatical competence of the learners. Describing people, facial expressions, places, incidents can be well practised with articles based on day to day events and pictures.
Grammar and Vocabulary can be improved with the help of this tool which strengthens the written communication.
For the teachers who are new to use their own material in language learning class, English News Paper is an effective way to experiment while minimizing the risk of things going wrong. The tool is easily available and can be used in many language-learning activities to create comfortable climate by encouraging self learning to any standard of students.
This helps teachers improve their quality of resource material and turn the class into a learning-centered classroom. It provides an opportunity to interface with the effective use of English by the luminaries of the field besides being acquainted with the professionals of various fields. It is the best resource for the teachers who wish to make the class a platform to facilitate their students a place of learning communicative English.
Dr. Yuga, thank your indispensable suggestion regarding the role of News papers as English Language Learning environment. On the top of that it would be an interesting place if Educators are well involved in publishing great articles in the media news papers. If so not only students but also employees from different workplaces would also be beneficiaries.
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