Breakingnewsenglish- 2 in 1.

Breakingnewsenglish offers language learning with abundant sources of authentic materials which comes together with the latest news.The activities are developed from the news updated from Breakingnews website. This offers authentic language use to students in their learning or in other words, learning in contexts, which makes the lesson more motivating.

Application in language teaching:

• Ready materials for language exercises, which can be used whether as pre, while, or post activities.
• complete activities which are arranged to scaffold learning  
• As homeworks or optional exercises for students who want to improve their language skills.

Advantages:

• Real world materials and contexts. Therefore, students are exposed to variety of knowledge/contents.
• The materials and exercises are free and do not need signup.
• Students can do the activities by themselves as answers are provided. This features allows students to foster autonomy in their language learning.
• The activities covers listening skills, reading skills, grammar, and vocabulary(spell and words).
• There learning activities are conducted in form of games which is fun and  interesting for students. This aspect raises motivation in students which eases the language learning process.
• The activities stimulates quick thinking, which is a crucial element in language classroom which hinders monotonous and boring perception of language learning.

Disadvantages:

•  Requires internet connection
•  Lack of interactivity@interaction or activities which support communication. Therefore, one aspect of language skill-speaking skills are not really developed. Teachers need to adapt the materials to overvcome this issue.
• Lack animation and colours which after a while brings off the mood.