Leveraging Online News for Language Learning across Diverse Educational Contexts

İbrahim Halil Topal
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The digitization of news has made it accessible to a growing number of people worldwide. Since it contains large quantities of authentic language input, online news has riveted language learners, teachers, and educators. Despite the availability of multitudes of studies on online news, there is a lack of research on comprehensively exploring its potential benefits and drawbacks to serve as a guide for language education. To that end, this exploratory research sought to survey the possible educational impacts of online news on language learning and teaching. The examination of the extensive literature review revealed eight potential advantages (real-world context, vocabulary expansion, grammatical/syntactical practice, heightened cultural awareness, practice/improvement in four skills, authentic language input, and content diversity) and disadvantages (linguistic complexity, content bias and inaccuracy, limited interactivity, time consumption, accessibility and technology dependency, information overload, digital distraction, and privacy concern). A five-step practical guideline for using online news was suggested for language teachers. News websites beneficial to multilingual and multicultural learning and awareness were provided. The research concluded with some limitations and recommendations for future studies.
利用在线新闻促进不同教育背景下的语言学习
新闻的数字化使全世界越来越多的人可以获取新闻。由于包含了大量真实的语言输入,网络新闻吸引了语言学习者、教师和教育工作者。尽管有大量关于网络新闻的研究,但缺乏对其潜在利弊进行全面探讨的研究,从而为语言教育提供指导。为此,本探索性研究试图调查网络新闻对语言学习和教学可能产生的教育影响。通过对大量文献的审查,我们发现了八种潜在的优势(真实语境、词汇扩展、语法/句法练习、文化意识增强、四种技能的练习/提高、真实的语言输入和内容多样性)和劣势(语言复杂性、内容偏差和不准确性、有限的互动性、时间消耗、可访问性和技术依赖性、信息超载、数字干扰和隐私问题)。为语言教师提出了使用网络新闻的五步实用指南。还提供了有利于多语言和多文化学习和认识的新闻网站。研究最后提出了一些局限性和对未来研究的建议。
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