PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF TEACHING ENGLISH TO JOURNALISM STUDENTS
PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF TEACHING ENGLISH TO JOURNALISM STUDENTS

Summary/Abstract: The English language is an absolutely necessary means of communication nowadays,including in the journalistic field. The prospective journalists who use a correct English grammar andan extended vocabulary in English, related to the mass media, will definitely have an advantage in acompetitive, performance-based globalized world. The present paper includes a survey of the Englishlanguage needs of 1st year students in journalism at the Faculty of Letters, the “Alexandru IoanCuza” University of Iași, and also refers to in-class activities suggested to the students and to somechallenges encountered at the English course. The decrease of teaching semesters during the B.A.years of study should be counterbalanced by an increase of quality in the teacher’s interaction withthe students and of quantity regarding the students’ individual work. The results of the surveyrevealed a series of learning methods, which if taken into consideration, could lead to animprovement of the relationship teacher-students, on the one hand, and of the students’ English skills,on the other hand.

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