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МІНІСТЕРСТВО ОСВІТИ І НАУКИ, МОЛОДІ ТА СПОРТУ УКРАЇНИ

Закарпатський державний університет

Львівський навчально-науковий інститут

Кафедра прикладної лінгвістики та загального мовознавства

Реєстраційний номер __________

Дата реєстрації _______________

Білик Віта Богданівна

Використання англійської періодики в процесі вдосконалення навиків читання в середній школі.

(Newspapers as a Tool in the English Language Teaching Classroom for Improving Reading Skills)

ДИПЛОМНА РОБОТА

Спеціальність: 7.02030303 «Прикладна лінгвістика»

Допущено до захисту Науковий керівник:

доц. Бабаєва Л.В..________

Завідувач кафедри Підпис дипломанта______

проф. Борзенко С.Г.___________

“__”_________2011 р.

Львів 2012

CONTENTS

Introduction 3

1. General Approaches to Reading 6

2. Characteristics of English newspaper style 14

3. Reading newspaper in the foreign language classroom 24

4. Practical tasks for teaching reading newspaper articles 35

References 56

Appendix 58

Introduction

The fact cannot be denied that today English has evolved, from its beginning to be the lingua franca of all fields of work. The need of having a major focus on English education is therefore of paramount importance. Now English education has become the main thrust in our education system.

Revolutionary changes are taking place in order to improve the quality of teaching English in schools. Modern technology too has slowly crept into the classroom teaching. However we cannot solely depend on the high tech which is only accessible to very limited number of schools. We should exploit whatever resources available in our schools and make the best use of them.

There is no teaching aid other than the newspaper for the teacher to facilitate his teaching. Newspapers as the cheapest and most readily available material in a school provide teachers enormous amount of text and information for a large sources of language activities which can be used in the classroom.

The teacher has to select the most appropriate material according to the aim of the activity and the language level of his learners. In our remote schools, the teacher has to be extremely resourceful and the newspapers are immensely helpful for him in the English classroom. The creative teacher uses the newspaper as a very powerful tool in his classroom teaching.

Newspapers provide an excellent opportunity for teachers to develop learners’ interest in reading and cultivate the reading habit of their learners. Reading a newspaper is the foremost activity of many in spite of the busy schedule of work. The latest news of the newspaper helps the most to initiate an effective communication with the others during the day. The teacher too can begin his class lively by eliciting any topic of news from the class. The responses provided by the learners help the teacher lead a discussion with the whole class for few minutes to create a friendly learning environment in the classroom.

Newspapers help immensely on effective communication Internet

The discussion can be based on the learners’ own interests. Initially the learners with the elementary proficiency in English can join the discussion in the mother tongue and the teacher could help them introducing the necessary new vocabulary. Reading aloud is an indispensable tool of language learning though most widely condemned by language teaching experts. It is a good way of practicing aspects of spoken language as pronunciation, and stress and intonation.

Reading, writing, and language teachers can use the newspaper as an effective tool for demonstrating the concepts of reading and writing, as well as the structure of the English language. Using newspapers in this way helps students see realistic examples of the practical applications of grammar and comprehension that they can utilize in their reading and writing experiences in and out of the classroom.

The aim of the diploma paper is to prove that the newspapers are a useful tool in the ELT classroom for improving reading skills and enhancing students' knowledge of current affairs.

The aim of the diploma paper is achieved by fulfilling the following tasks:

• to analyze the general approaches to reading;

• to overview the characteristics of English newspaper style;

• to analyze the ways of reading newspapers in the foreign language classroom

• to analyze the teacher's role in developing communication;

• to observe activities for teaching reading newspaper articles.

The novelty of the research lies in my personal experience, gained during pedagogical practice in the college.

The methods used for investigating the theme were description, classification, analysis and comparison.

All the activities introduced in the diploma paper have their practical value and can be used at the English lessons.

The structure of this diploma paper was determined by the aim and the tasks of the investigation.

The first part of the diploma paper deals with theoretical aspects of the general approaches to reading, it overviews the main stages and techniques of reading.

The second part is devoted to characteristics of English newspaper style; special newspaper vocabulary was analyzed: terms, slang, neologisms, abbreviations, acronyms, clichés.

The third and the fourth parts are the most practical ones. I have chosen two articles (one article deals with politics, another one is of an entertaining character) and tried to show how to work with them at the English lesson. Different types of activities have been used in this part: prediction and pronunciation activities, communicative activities, crosswords, puzzles, etc

I have analyzed the teacher's role in the communicative classroom; observed grouping students for communication; presented the ways of reading newspapers in the foreign language classroom and activities for teaching reading newspaper articles.

Conclusions briefly summarize the results of the investigation.

The list of literature: contains the enumeration of the dictionaries, books, monographs, articles and other sources of information.