مقدمه کتاب A Jouey in Joualism

News is part of everyday life and in order for ESL/EFL class to use real-life materials we can suggest that news should be part of such classes. There have been a number of books published on joualism but ‘A Jouey in Joualism’ aims to provide a concise yet comprehensive coverage of pragmatic aspects and issues in the field.

This work describes and presents language in the News based on a wide variety of Newspaper corpus from around the English-speaking world. It explores words, collocations, expressions and their equivalents in news which can enrich personal “word bank” with many high-frequency and challenging vocabulary in the media. Each chapter presents topic-related readings with key terms in context. Follow-up exercises provide practice activities to help unlock the meanings of texts and allow the reader to become involved in the material.

The ‘Starter’ section at the beginning of each unit is used to raise awareness of the topic. The exercises, activities and tasks are underpinned by sound theoretical principles while addressing practical conces and debates in joualism. The exercises present different ways to exploit news reports in the classroom and focus on raising the level of involvement and participation that the students have in the lesson. The authors have tried to choose appropriate topics that most of the students are interested in. Since reading a news report in a second language can be demanding, the chosen articles are not long. The articles contain useful lexical sets as well as grammar exponents and components with interesting syntax and sentence style. Writing and speaking sections provide a good way to follow up the basic textual work. Most students eagerly join the conversation when issues are addressed that touch their own lives, so the focus of the book is on students finding news stories that interest them on an everyday level. This way, the students can practice the language further. Besides, students can describe and discuss pictures that relate to each topic. Students predict the story from a picture accompanying the article. In the warm up and speaking section, students are invited to discuss questions related to the topic. In the pre-reading section, the activities are directly related to the text, rather than the topic. Peers predict the story from the headline and feedback ideas to the class/teacher. Key features of this book are engaging topics, motivating pragmatic activities and tasks. At the end of each unit answers and a glossary of used words and phrases are provided.

To prepare the book, a wide variety of materials have been used. To name a few, newspapers and current affairs magazines, TV, Radio, The Inteet, BBC Leaing English and The BBC World Service were used in the work. The ultimate purpose of this book is to familiarize the students with the joualistic terms, their definitions, equivalents and applications in related contexts. This book is an essential reading for students, lecturers, and researchers in Media Studies, Linguistics, Translation and inteational affairs. The breadth of coverage ensures that the book will be of benefit to students and researchers at primary and secondary levels of higher education experiencing joualism. It also paves the way for further scientific projects in the field of linguistics of news. Moreover, a CD including 190 audio files of BBC News accompanies the book. An interactive weblog (AjoueyinJoualism.blogfa.com) is there for you to dare share ideas and findings.