【正文】 f practicality to be dealt with. It is also clearly indicated in the New Curriculum that during high school, students should reach level seven (altogether nine levels). In the description of level seven general objectives, it is included that students can read the simplified edition of original English works and English periodical publications, which are especially provided for high school students. Students’ amount of extracurriculum reading should e to 230 thousand words. Students should learn to use about 2200 words and 300 to 400 expressions or phrases. Besides, much more is required to improve students’ cultural awareness. (My own translation) It is believed that students are likely to fail to reach the standards if they do not use English periodicals as extra materials for English study. Thus, it is of great importance and necessity to develop students’ language petence, especially the reading ability. In order to get students to read extensively, newspapers can play a very helpful role since newspaper reading accords to the requirement of the New Curriculum Standard. Secondly, newspaper reading is on the same direction with the college entrance exam reform and newspapers pensate some defects of the outdated textbooks. Thirdly, the various novel content which is informative for both the teachers and students satisfies the different needs and students of heterogeneous language petence. The extraordinary newspapers, which are especially designed for the teens, can no doubt spark the interests of the high school students. Newspapers play the role as a municative bridge, which links what they know about the outside world and what they have learned in class. Thus, when they have prehensive input, they can yield output sooner or later. Fourthly, adopting newspapers as supplementary materials in English teaching is necessary and definitely a challenge for the teachers since they are the ones to provide the resources and design the class activities. This means that teachers also need to read more. The application of newspapers in English teaching benefits teachers and students alike. Finally, China now has many kinds of English newspapers, which are very easy to get as teaching resources, especially, 21st Century, with affordable prices for the majority. Meanwhile, newspaper reading is so practical that it is useful for the whole lifetime. So far, nationally, there are more than 120 experimental schools which are attempting newspaper reading in English class. It has been proved that it is possible and practical to use newspapers in China’s high school English teaching. Part The definition of languageThere are many definitions of “l(fā)anguage” found in dictionaries and linguistics books. Different views on language generate different teaching methodologies. The understanding of the nature of language may provide the basis for a particular teaching method. (Richards and Rodgers, 1986) Language is a system of munication consisting of a set of small parts and a set of rules which decide the ways in which these parts can be bined to produce messages that have meaning. (Cambridge International Dictionary of English 1995:795) It indicates that language is used to municate and the municative language petence is important and should be highlighted. Principles of municative approachesThough there is no fixed definition for municative language teaching, it has generally been accepted in the field of second language teaching. In this approach, we can refer to Little Wood (1981) who divided the municative approach into premunicative and municative activities.As Brown (2001:4651) suggests, there are six principles embodied in Communicative Language Teaching: learnercentered instruction。 cooperative and collaborative learning。 interactive learning in which students practice orally by forming pairs and groups to receive and produce authentic input and output and write with real persons in mind。 whole language education。 relating to contentbased instruction, which integrates content learning with language learning and taskbased instruction. The principle followed under municative approaches: Authenticity of the materials and the reasons of using themIn the third principle, authenticity is mentioned. In the fourth principle, whole language education based on the following ideas: cooperative learning。 participatory learning。 studentcentered learning。 focus on the munity of learners。 focus on the social nature of language。 use of authentic, natural language。 meaningcentered language。 holistic assessment techniques in testing。 integration of the “four skills.” (Brown, 2001:489) This means that in CLT, authentic language should be used. The definition of authentic materials which employ the authentic language used here is taken from Peacock (1997): materials that have been produced to fulfill some social purpose in the language munity. For . Welkin’s (1976:79), authentic materials are designed for native speakers, but not especially edited or recorded for foreign students. (My own translation)Authentic teaching materials carry another meaning: they might refer to the teaching materials that should reflect the real life situations as much as possible. Most of the English textbooks currently published in China have already addressed to this. However, teachers quite often found themselves so closely bound by textbooks that they ignore how useful other materials can be. Provided it is appropriately exploited, using authentic material in the classroom, even when not done in an authentic situation, is significant for many reasons. First, authentic materials keep students informed about what is happening home and abroad, so they have an intrinsic educational value. As teachers, we are educators working within the school system, so education and general development are part of our responsibilities. (Sanderson, 2003) Natural language changes which reflect in authentic mat