LANGUAGE TEACHING AND MEDIA LITERACY

in this article highlights of using innovative methods in the teaching Language. The purpose of this article is to present a proposal for using media resources in the classroom. The underlying reason is to raise awareness of the potential that the mass media product offers in teaching a foreign language and to point out that we have more material within easy reach than we believe. First, I will discuss the role of mass media in language development and language teaching in particular. Second, I will put forward a proposal for using mass media products which involves discussing the role of mother tongue and of genre theory with regard to dealing with diversityñ or different levels in the classroom. Third, I will give some examples of the types of exercises that may be useful and easy to design for using mass media resources in teaching English, or any other foreign language