“Using newspapers in education is not new; it dates back to June 8, 1795”
as Cornish (2007) stated in The Brownsville Herald Newsletters. He added
that nowadays Newspaper in Education (NIE) is a nationally recognized
collaboration between schools, local newspapers, and community sponsors.
More than 950 newspapers across the United States sponsor a Newspaper in
Education Program. Cornish also claimed that studies have shown that
students who use newspapers score higher on reading comprehension tests
and develop stronger critical thinking skills. Newspapers have been used in
American classrooms for many years and have proven their worth as an
educational tool as stated in Kossack and Sullivan, (1989) and Winters and
Orr (1989). However, reading and understanding the headlines of newspapers
in a foreign language is not easy, as headlines have a varying level of English
that makes it difficult for readers to understand their contexts without
adjusting the input to their level or to their previous knowledge