Title: Online newspapers in teaching reading in the English classroom at high school

Authors: Tatiana Lisitsina; Marina Pastushkova; Olga Putistina; Tatiana Lobovskaya

Addresses: Department of Foreign Languages, Murmansk Arctic State University, Russia ' Department of Foreign Languages, Murmansk Arctic State University, Russia ' Department of Foreign Languages, Murmansk Arctic State University, Russia ' Department of Foreign Languages, Murmansk Arctic State University, Russia

Abstract: The paper reports the results of an experimental study on the use of authentic online newspapers in developing students' reading skills in senior classes by the English high school teachers of Murmansk and the Murmansk region, Russia. The study adopted questionnaire as a research method. The experimental study analysed the educational process of developing students' reading skills in senior classes at English lessons and detected the major difficulties for the students in the reading comprehension of media texts. Quantitative and qualitative data came from 135 English teachers of Murmansk and the Murmansk region (Russia). This study also focused on the problems of the use of English press and outlined the selection criteria for the online media and newspaper reading activities to be used in the English classroom. The results of the study clearly demonstrate that the use of online newspapers contributes to the development of students' critical thinking, and cognitive abilities at high school.

Keywords: online newspapers; reading skills; media education; language education; newspaper reading activities.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIL.2020.108466

International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 2020 Vol.28 No.1, pp.119 - 138

Received: 12 Dec 2018
Accepted: 11 Apr 2019
Published online: 14 Jul 2020 *

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