As it is revealed in the results of the survey questionnaire used in this study,
most of Al-al-Bayt University students are not aware of the importance of
reading the daily newspapers online in Arabic or in English. This could be
attributed to the fact that the students are restricted to use textbooks as the
only source for learning English. In our situation in Jordan, students are very
much stuck to the material in textbooks and course lectures to pass exams.
They are not motivated to refer to go a little bit further than the course
components. Furthermore, they are not trained to read newspapers in English.
They are not used to going over the genre of newspapers headlines written in
English as it is difficult for them to understand. The reason could be
attributed to difficult vocabulary, different style and abridged sentence