What's News?

1. What is the name of the newspaper?

2. What language is it written in?

3. How often is it published?

4. Is it published in the United States or elsewhere? If elsewhere, where?

5. What types of features are included in this publication? For example, does it include foreign, national, and local news? Human interest stories, advertisements, classified ads, or program listings?

6. Do you recognize stories and/or pictures you have seen in an English-language newspaper? Give examples.

7. What other kinds of information does this publication offer besides news?

8. Interview a regular reader of this publication. Have him or her explain how it is different from a general-interest newspaper. How is that difference helpful?

9. Based on your own experience or questions you have asked, explain the purpose and significance of publications published in languages other than English.

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