English newspapers and magazines and the teaching of College English

Reading English newspapers and magazines is an effective way to help the students get the latest information worldwide and improve English levels. The present article first analyzes the features of the English newspapers and magazines and then proposes making good use of them through such classroom activities as discussing the hot issue and role-playing to provide more authentic situations in which the students can have chances to practice four English skills, achieving the ideal teaching result.

Suicide in Nigeria:observations from the content analysis of newspapers

Background Suicide is a global public health problem and Nigeria is one of the epicentres of suicide in the world.However,there is a dearth of research exploring the epidemiological aspects of suicide in Nigeria.Aim To examine the demographic information and precipitating events for suicides in Nigeria by analysing the contents of newspaper reports of suicide.Methods We searched,collected,and analysed published news reports about suicide from 10 English newspapers in Nigeria.A total of 350 suicide reports were assessed between January 2010 and December 2019 after screening and sorting.Results The mean(SD)age of the reported cases was 36.33(15.48)years.Majority of the reported cases were male(80.6%),married(51.8%),students(33.6%),living in a semi-urban area(40.3%)and among the age group of 25-34(25.3%).Hanging(48.6%)and poisoning(32.2%)were the most commonly reported methods of suicide.Financial constraints and marital conflicts were most commonly assumed precipitating factors.Conclusion This study suggests that being male,married,or living in semi-urban areas are associated with suicide in Nigeria.Further community-based studies are warranted to generalise the findings and adopt appropriate preventive strategies.

When Newspapers Go Mobile： Utilizing the Third Screen to Make a Profit

This paper examines the effect of adding the third screen to current newspaper business models. Newspapers have begun to employ such technologies to bolster audience numbers and to attract more advertisers. The comparison of the old revenue model of newspapers with a new emerging business model utilizing newer technologies allows a framework of a possibly new model to be applied to older models. Media are desperate to gain audiences lost in the past decade and trying to reformulate their current business models to reflect new technology. The way media are framing the third screen as a possible savior to their current business model shows that the media realize the old model of revenue through advertising and subscriptions is antiquated. This paper presents a new business model for media by embracing new technologies and adds to current scholarship of media management in a new technologically inclined world.

Maintaining Power by Guarding the Gates： Journalists＇ Perceptions of Audience Participation in Online Newspapers

Focus on audience participation in online news media has increased rapidly in recent years. Online newspapers offer their audience several opportunities to participate, for example, by submitting comments on articles or uploading pictures/videos. Audience participation has also emerged as a fast growing research field： The motives for focusing on audience participation have been analyzed and the kind of participatory opportunities that news media offer the audience have been mapped. Also, questions on whether audience participation should be regarded as an advantage or disadvantage to professional journalism have been discussed. This study relates to the latter perspective as it examines media practitioners＇ perceptions of audience participation. By focusing on the case of Swedish newspaper journalists, this study analyzes how audience participation is perceived to affect journalistic work and to what extent such participation is believed to benefit journalism. Based on a representative survey of Swedish journalists, conducted in 2011-2012, and a survey of journalists working at three local morning papers in Sweden, conducted in 2009, the analyses reveal a rather ambivalence attitude to audience participation among the journalistic corps.

The Representation of Foreign Politics Through Media Prism： A Case Study of 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Campaign in Mainland Chinese Newspapers

As the most powerful nation in the world, the U.S. presidential election campaign drew a lot of attention from the media around the world. This study examines how party-orientation and market-orientation newspapers in China presented 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign to their audience, and how the news serve for the reproduction of domestic dominated ideology and safeguarding domestic political needs. It adopted content analysis and textual analysis as research methods. The results show that Party newspaper tends to serve domestic political ideology, while market-oriented newspapers showed mixed attitude toward political demand. Although market newspapers, out of the concern of political safety, employed some tactic to comply with the demand of dominated ideology to some extent, their cooperation was limited since their main purpose was commercial success and their presentation even destroy the aim of linkage politics for the reasons include acquiring market profit and/or pursuit of professional value. This study is a positive effort to make up the current research gap of studies on international news in Chinese media.

Respect to the Tradition or Saliency to the Might?——Analysis of the Naming Mechanism of British-American and American-British Newspapers and Periodicals

This paper analyzes the positions and developing situation of the USA and the UK in the field of journalism by statistical comparison of titles consisting "American and British"or"British and American"in 28 teaching materials and other publications concerning newspapers and periodicals; based on the order principle of compound nouns,this paper further explores the naming mechanism of"American and British"and"British and American"newspapers periodicals.

Reading the Visual Design of Job Advertisements in Taiwan Residents Newspapers

This content analysis of print advertisements for jobs focuses on changes in choices of visual semiotic resources over time. Recruitment advertisements as a genre of persuasion discourse require careful design, not only in terms of writing but also in the selection of visual images, which can help attract candidates＇ attention and therefore enhance the effectiveness of the messages conveyed. It has also been argued that changes in visual-communication styles of recruitment advertisements could, to some extent, reflect how such advertisements were perceived as functioning from the employers＇ perspectives. In this paper, content analysis of job advertisements as printed in weekend newspapers in three different years （1993, 2003, and 2013） revealed that： （1） the presence of visual content in job advertisements fluctuated over the past two decades; and （2） to make recruitment advertisements more eye-catching, visual images were more likely to be placed in areas identified as salient in theoretical terms. The results shed new light on the roles played by the visual semiotic resources of job advertisements for the purpose of attracting human resources effectively.

Furtherance and Shaping:On the Media-Making of Hankow in the“Foreign Newspaper Era”(1866-1900)

“The Era of Foreign Newspapers”refers to the period from the emergence of the first modern newspaper in Hankow in 1866 to 1900 when Wuhan’s newspaper industry was dominated by foreign newspapers.The well-known foreign newspapers in Wuhan during this period mainly included Hankow Times,The New Edition of Tan Dao,and Han Bao.The subjective purpose of foreigners’early endeavors of running newspapers in Wuhan was mainly to use newspapers to convey business information,spread religion,or influence public opinion in order to safeguard their own interests in China.However,foreign newspapers in this period played a constructive role in the development of Wuhan’s local society:It gave birth to the emergence and development of the first private and official newspapers in Wuhan and shaped the local social,cultural,and political changes in Wuhan in the late Qing Dynasty.Sorting out and explaining the constructive influence of Hankow’s foreign newspaper in this period has certain significance for restoring the social and political landscape of Wuhan at that time and better understanding the context of historical development.

The System of Reference and Lexical Cohesion in Newspaper-An Example of Analyzing "Beijing and Shanghai in Race to Attract Top Foreign Talents"

Discourse analysis is gaining its prominence in teaching reading. The paper presents an example of analyzing the system of reference and lexical cohesion of a news report. It demonstrates how to involve discourse analysis into the teaching of newspaper reading in order to make students get a clear framework of reference and lexical cohesion in a functional-grammar-conscious manner.

On the Hong Kong Newspaper's Role in the Democratic Revolution

Since the Cession of Hong Kong for the British since the news of speech terms is strictly limited, long-term Hong Kong residents can not participate in local politics. But to allow discussion of political affairs in China outside Hong Kong. Thus, the various historical periods in the future, the progressive intellectuals to Hong Kong newspaper, publicity revolution, the process of democratic revolution in China, plays a very important role.

The Application of English New spaper Reading in English Learning and Its Problems

Reading is the basic way for learners to study English,to obtain various information as well as knowledge,and to improve the proficiency of understanding and expressing.English newspaper reading,owing to its own characteristics,will make up for the shortcomings of conventional textbooks at quite a high level.The primary goal of this research is to investigate the general situation of English newspaper reading among college students,their attitudes toward the teaching of English newspaper reading and their problems in reading newspapers by conducting a questionnaire among non-English majors.Finally,it suggests a reasonable method of English newspaper learning based on the problems this questionnaire indicates.

An Automatic Method to Identify Citations to Journals in News Stories: A Case Study of UK Newspapers Citing Web of Science Journals

Purpose: Communicating scientific results to the public is essential to inspire future researchers and ensure that discoveries are exploited. News stories about research are a key communication pathway for this and have been manually monitored to assess the extent of press coverage of scholarship.Design/methodology/Approach: To make larger scale studies practical, this paper introduces an automatic method to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals. Curated ProQuest queries were used to search for citations to 9,639 Science and3,412 Social Science Web of Science(WoS) journals from eight UK daily newspapers during2006–2015. False matches were automatically filtered out by a new program, with 94% of the remaining stories meaningfully citing research.Findings: Most Science(95%) and Social Science(94%) journals were never cited by these newspapers. Half of the cited Science journals covered medical or health-related topics,whereas 43% of the Social Sciences journals were related to psychiatry or psychology. From the citing news stories, 60% described research extensively and 53% used multiple sources,but few commented on research quality.Research Limitations: The method has only been tested in English and from the ProQuest Newspapers database.Practical implications: Others can use the new method to systematically harvest press coverage of research.Originality/value: An automatic method was introduced and tested to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals.

On the Construction of Multidimensional Language Settings for EFL Students

This paper discusses the construction of multidimensional language settings for EFL students.Various settings can beconstructed to provide students enough linguistic input to ensure that they learn English better.

The Stylistic Analysis of a News Report from The Times

The style of newspaper reporting,with a variety of genres employed in the newspaper,has its special features from the point of stylistics.This article is making tentative attempts to discuss the usual features through analyzing the news report entitled Half of China Affected in Worst Floods Since 1930s chosen from The Times.

Implications of NIE Project to Development of Newspapers about Agriculture,Countryside and Farmers

Through analyzing current situations of newspapers about agriculture,countryside and farmers and problems impairing development of these newspapers,this paper presents constructive recommendations for combination with NIE project at operational level.In China,NIE project should not copy foreign experience,but should proceed from rural realities,expend its intension and enrich its extension,and extend coverage of newspaper to all levels in rural areas.In addition,it is recommended to explore new approaches and find a new development road of newspapers about agriculture,countryside and farmers through transforming the publishing mode.

Impact of Gaokao on education at the societal level:Evidence from newspaper data

过去三十年间,考试影响已经被认为是考试效度验证中后果方面的重要证据,在语言测评领域引起了越来越多的关注。此方面现有研究多关注于测试对课堂内教学的影响(通常称之为"反拨效应"),而对测试在课堂之外的个体、政策及实践等社会层面的影响研究甚少。为此,本文研究了2011年至2017年间两种国家级报纸的数据,以此分析高考对于中国教育社会层面的影响。文献分析的结果显示了高考在诸多方面的巨大影响,包括考试内容、施考、利益相关方承受的压力、学校教学实践、教育政策等方面,特别是举国瞩目的现行高考改革。我们的分析显示考试内容设计需更多关注农村考生群体,考试需系统地提供更具包容性的施考程序,以及高考改革的成功需有课程及教法的配套改革支持。

Learning the Easy Way

WITH the increasing spread of the electronic age into all spheres of our lives,it comes as no surprise that print media publications have generally taken a knock in sales over the past few years.People have turned from subscribing to newspapers and buying books to purchasing e-books and surfing the Internet,and now,learning online has become a more convenient and efficient option.These changes pose great challenges to the online sharers of information;while consumers are becoming more and more cautious when paying for knowledge.

Opportunities and Threats for Chinese Newspaper Media in the Omnimedia Era

Chinese Newspaper Media in the Omnimedia Era are faced with opportunities and threats brought by media ecological reconstruction.However.Newspaper media still have the advantages of circulation and readership.Through combing the basic situation and the main advantage of newspaper media development,this paper summarizes communication practice and future development of newspaper media.It is found that newspaper media should build a series of self-controlled new media platforms and integrate superiorities.What’s more,based on newspaper-oriented,newspaper media should strengthen the core feature of media and maintain the influence and communication value.

The Historical Value of Newspaper Directory of China

As a prominent journalist and entrepreneur living in Shanghai from 1911 to 1937,the“China Hand”Carl Crow(1884-1945)wrote a lot of works on Chinese newspapers,business,religion and culture.His advertising agency Carl Crow,Inc.published four editions of Newspaper Directory of China in the year of 1921,1931,1932 and 1935 respectively,and the most popular was the edition of 1935,which had a positive impact on the commercialization and development of the China’s newspaper industry.