One way to encourage our ESL/EFL students and others to become
active citizens in the world is to help them become aware of
important news events. Current news can also be a source of
high-interest reading, speaking, listening, and writing
material, and provide opportunities to stimulate higher-order
thinking. A first step in this process is to provide them with
accessible information. This list, one of the last I’ll be
developing this year, offers my choices for the top ten
News/Current Events Websites for English Language Learners in
2007. As in all of my lists, many of these sites existed prior
to 2007. I didn’t blog about them until this year, though, so
I’m including them in this year’s list. Number ten is the
English Club. It provides a monthly text and audio summary of
four news stories, including online cloze (fill-in-the-gap)
exercises. I’m ranking CNN News Videos With Closed Captioning as
number nine. You’ll see a series of “snapshots” streaming across
the screen. Clicking on one will lead you to it