Title of the Practice: Enrichment of Students Communication Skills

Action:

Reading the English newspaper is a daily activity provided to students during the last hour of class. The daily practice aims to instill communication skills through reading brief articles, essential news, factual headlines, and motivational quotations on a regular basis.

Objectives of the Practice

The purpose of Newspaper reading is,

• To equip students with good knowledge and understanding skills in English by facilitating them with daily English newspapers
• To encourage students to read newspapers that will help them communicate with others, so reducing students' fears and apprehensions about communicating in English.
• To encourage students to engage in oratorical competitions so that they can face and converse in English with individuals in their immediate surroundings.
• To improve the confidence level in English among students so that they can achieve their desired goal.
• To improve creativity in English communication using a participative learning method.
• To enable the students to think on high level learning and realize the differences between “pass in exam” and “learning a skill”.

The Context

Reading has been shown to help students develop all-around abilities, improve spelling and grammar, and expand their vocabulary. The goal of most writers is to keep their readers interested. They achieve this by varying their language. This is what makes reading in an English language so difficult, because one might come across a wider range of words that he/she wouldn't have heard from individuals speaking that language. Students are given an hour each day to work on improving their language skills. They are given phonetic instruction in order to learn how to pronounce words correctly.

The Practice

The language of teaching in the classroom is only English whereby the College has created a good habit of encouraging students to learn English. Leading English newspapers are made available to students. Reading brief articles, true events such as political strategies, speeches by national leaders, sports news, and other relevant headlines are regularly read. Reading English newspapers thereby helps students develop proper pronunciation and grammar.

Evidence of Success

Students of the college have actively participated and demonstrated their English learning and communication talents through numerous activities, and they benefited from this since they read the newspaper every day.In doing so, the College has a variety of proof of successful events that have been conducted on a regular basis on various occasions as a result of the promotion of such practices.

Problems Encountered and Resources Required

The biggest drawback of reading English newspapers is that it is tough for students because English is not their first language. English spelling is a question of memory. Many English words have the same or almost identical meanings, making it difficult for them to determine which word to use when.

Words in a sentence can be stressed differently to modify the meaning of the statement, which is uncommon in other languages. Conjugating verbs is also a nightmare for students learning English as a second language. To address this issue, students were instructed to listen to English news and movies in order to improve their pronunciation.