ONLINE NEWSPAPERS AS LEARNING RESOURCES IN ELT CLASSROOMS

Abstract

The present article focuses on the impact of using newspapers in teaching language skills to the second language learners of English. Moreover, the paper also discusses the importance of online newspapers in the English classrooms in this digital era, when teachers, as well as learners, can access unlimited resources on the Internet, for free, that can be successfully implimented for promoting literacy through reading, writing and dialogues, which are the hallmarks of effective and efficient use of language. Lastly, it gives some useful suggestions to the teachers as well as the learners of English as a second language how to develop their teaching-learning skills by presenting numerous methods and techniques of teaching these aspects. Our experience in using newspapers to enhance integrative writing and reading in language as well as the way learning English through news articles may enlarge students’ vocabulary will be shared in this paper.