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ERIC Number: EJ725947
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Publication Date: 2005-Oct-1
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What's News?
Hobbs, Renee
Educational Leadership, v63 n2 p58-61 Oct 2005
News analysis and entertainment media is part of a media literacy that helps students access, analyze, evaluate and create messages using media in various forms. Media literacy is a key asset in a democracy as well as a bridge to reading comprehension, as skillful media use and script-reading activities can support the English acquisition skills, especially among second-language learners.
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Media Literacy, Democracy, English (Second Language), Mass Media Use, Mass Media Role, Teaching Methods
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Language: English
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