• B R Venkataramu

ABSTRACT: This article reviews and analyses four textbooks purportedly written for teaching reading and writing interactively. It attempts to shed light on the approaches and strategies adopted to establish the connection between reading and writing. This investigation is intended to help and provide guide to language material developers, more soundly and effectively, as they embark on designing ESL/ EFL courses, specifically, reading and writing. The analysis is based on whether each textbook maintains well-balanced activities in both domains throughout its sections or units, the types of reading and writing tasks and exercises manipulated throughout these textbooks and whether these textbooks address other language aspects such as grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, etc. The analysis has revealed that these books maintained, to a large extent, balanced activities in reading and writing throughout their sections or units, i.e., the reading activities were set to help students to write effectively using the lexical items and sentence structures they experienced in the reading texts. Activities such as review (an activity that discusses styles and writing techniques used by the author in the reading passage), summary, paragraph and essay writing, collaborative learning activities and topics for discussion were some of the main features of these textbooks. Some of these textbooks included activities in grammar and speaking skill. Language material developers as well teachers/instructors are advised to use the outcomes of this investigation as a guide to plan and prepare connected reading and writing activities for their language classrooms. The best situation for any language context is either using these strategies and approaches to produce their own materials, adopting or adapting these published materials to suit their students’ needs, taking into account the cultural and linguistic differences between their students and learners for whom these textbooks were written. It is a diverse instrument where all the subjects like sports, political, science, technology, literature and economics could be seen. In this learning, the teacher is a facilitator, she/ he spends more time to students for motivation. The aim of this research paper will spotlight such activities that will focus on impediments of these students in writing through reading and understanding English Newspapers and to develop the learner’s vocabulary, grammar, cohesiveness, writing skill, reading skill, discussion oriented skill, drafting skills, and presentation skill.

KEYWORDS: reading and writing relationships, vocabulary in context Reading, Writing, English Newspapers, Activities, Classroom.

"The Role of English Newspapers in Improving Reading and Writing Skills in the English Language", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.1, Issue 6, page no.492-496, November-2014, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701A68.pdf

"The Role of English Newspapers in Improving Reading and Writing Skills in the English Language", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.1, Issue 6, page no. pp492-496, November-2014, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701A68.pdf