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This article will describe the why and how for integrating news media sources into a multiskills ESL classroom. Through the news, students are immediately engaged with the material because they are viewing articles and news stories that are happening in the world. Additionally, the authentic nature of the material presents a broad spectrum of vocabulary and sentence structures. While students are not expected to understand every word or phrase, the exposure to authentic text in an ESL class is tremendously beneficial. This article will take a 1st-person perspective on the implementation of the news-based course, as well as ideas on how to use the news as a supplemental resource in other ESL classes, such as speaking, composition, or grammar/vocabulary classes.  \nIntroduction  \nESL practitioners bring a variety of interdisciplinary expertise  \ninto the classroom and can draw upon their knowledge of other  \nfields to create interesting and engaging lessons. One of these fields that I have incorporated into my TESOL teaching is my interest in news media. Because of my experience in using news media sources to investigate current events and world affairs, I decided to implement news-based curriculum in an intermediate elective course at an International English Program in Northern California. The notion of authenticity was at the core of this class. Authenticity, defined by Morrow (1977) as “real language, produced by a real speaker or writer fora real audience and designed to convey a real message” (p. 13), has been a topic of interest for ESL researchers since the 1970s. This definition poses some problems, however, as it is not clear what is meant  \nThe CATESOL Journal 26.1 • 2014 • 29  \nby “real,” and it begs the question of what counts as “unreal.” Furthermore, Gilmore (2007) rightly warns that authentic material can come in many different forms and “authentic” is not synonymous with quality or even appropriateness; indeed, authentic materials ought to be carefully selected just as any other classroom material should be. If the selected materials are too abstract or contain too many low-frequency words (see Widdowson [1998] for examples), the resulting materials do not yield many benefits for students. That said, authentic materials can promote cognitive awareness and lower affective filters (Bacon & Finnemann, 1990) and present valuable learning opportunities as long as high-challenge tasks are accompanied by high support (Mariani, 1997). It is not the goal of this article to enter the debate between authenticity/inauthenticity, so I will use the term “authentic material”as a matter of convenience, given that all of the news sources discussed below do not specifically cater to ESL students but instead were created for the general English-speaking population.  \nWhile the literature around authentic materials proliferates, the literature around using news in the ESL classroom is sparse, focusing on pedagogical suggestions (Brinton & Gaskill, 1978), learning outcomes (Bahrani & Tam, 2011), and selection of materials (Bell, 2003). In terms of listening exercises, Brinton and Gaskill (1978) recommended using news broadcasts for listening activities, noting that although these lessons may have required substantial preparation (the instructor had to transcribe the broadcasts beforehand) and students may have felt overwhelmed by listening to the speed of native speech, students showed greater motivation and enthusiasm for the material. However, they also noted that much of their evidence had been anecdotal. More recently, researchers such as Bahrani and Tam (2011) have investigated the link between exposure to TV and radio news and speaking proficiency in an EFL setting in Iran, finding that the group exposed to new","cbCaiv9uSZ7EmiZK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiv9uSZ7EmiZK","pdf",492606,"English","# Introduction\n## Authenticity and material selection\n# Class Structure\n## Skeletal structure with explorative activities","[{\"question\":\"Why are news sources effective for intermediate and advanced ESL classes?\",\"answer\":\"News content quickly engages learners because stories and articles relate to the real world. Its authentic nature also provides rich vocabulary and varied sentence structures for exposure.\"},{\"question\":\"What are key challenges when using “authentic” materials in ESL?\",\"answer\":\"Authentic material is not automatically high quality or appropriate, and it can be linguistically difficult or too abstract. 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