IMPROVING WRITING AND SPEAKING SKILLS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ON THE BASIS OF AUTHENTIC NEWS ARTICLES

Abstract

This article discusses ways, methods, and mechanisms for improving the writing and speaking skills of secondary school students based on authentic news articles. The authentic material used is the children's news program BBC Newsround, which covers topics such as the environment, sports, scientific research, culture, and education, using simplified English. This allows middle school students to learn new words, pronounce sentences correctly, and learn useful information in English in an interactive and understandable way. The study conducts an experiment with middle school students, analyzes and evaluates the results before and after the experiment, describes the main problems of implementing this method of teaching a foreign language, and develops recommendations to eliminate existing problems. The article concludes that the use of authentic information in the form of news articles can improve the assimilation of material and increase student engagement in the learning process. The study examines methods, mechanisms, techniques, and means of teaching English as a foreign language using authentic materials and analyzes the effectiveness of BBC Newsround news programs, allowing for a theoretical and practical examination of the research topic. The study includes diagrams and statistics in tabular form, allowing the key points of the study to be viewed in an interactive and convenient format with easy-to-understand illustrations. It is worth mentioning the description of the problems of integrating communicative approaches to teaching English using authentic materials, as a result of which, thanks to the analysis of existing problems, it is possible to achieve a methodological solution in various practical situations that arise in the process of teaching English to middle school students in educational institutions in non-English-speaking countries