Arab Educational Information Network

This study aims to investigate the importance of using up-to-date materials about current events to teach study skills, finding out how to use such kind of materials and the attitudes of EFL students towards using them. The study adopts descriptive analytical approach. The questionnaire is used as a mean of data collection. The subjects of the study were 40 students of English language at university of Khartoum, Faculty of education. They were given 15 sessions in which the teacher used different materials about current issues to teach study skills as well as different methods and techniques; the eclectic approach is used to teach the course. The questionnaire shows that students have positive attitudes toward using materials about up to dated issues. They think that these materials improve their study skills, motivate them, make the learning enjoyable and give them purpose for learning. This revealed the importance of developing and supplementing EFL materials with materials about current issues that related to students environment. In addition to that the eclectic approach of language teaching is the ideal one to adopt. The above mentioned results have achieved the hypotheses of the study. (Published abstract)