"The teaching and learning of English in many parts of the world, especially where it is taught as a second language, continues to be teacher-based. The curriculum is determined and designed by language planners and teachers as part of a formal system. Although learning a language goes well beyond the limits of any academic curriculum and becomes a lifelong process which extends further than institutionalized goals or objectives, learners are rarely called upon to play any significant role in it. A genre-based flexible language curriculum can facilitate language learning within, across and beyond the confines of a curriculum, which will allow more freedom to the participants in the teaching and learning process." (BHATIA, V.K., Analysing Genre - Language Use in Professional Settings, Pearson: 1993, p.157.)

In a genre-based language curriculum, activities using newspapers may be very effective. Some of the many advantages of studying the newspaper as a genre include the following, EXCEPT for: