Chapter 1Introduction/
1?1The research background/
1?1?1The research motivations/
1?1?2The research objectives/
1?2The significance of the research/
1?3The research data and methodology/
1?3?1Research data/
1?3?2Research methodology/
1?4The organization of the book/
Chapter 2Media, media literacy and media literacy education/
2?1Media/
2?1?1What is media? /
2?1?2Studies on news/
2?2Media literacy/
2?2?1What is media literacy? /
2?2?2Characteristics and skills of media literacy/
2?2?3Critical thinking/
2?3Media literacy education/
2?3?1What is media literacy education? /
2?3?2The purpose and “key concepts” of media literacy education/
2?3?3Teaching media literacy/
2?4Summary /
Chapter 3Critical discourse analysis/
3?1Critical discourse analysis/
3?1?1News discourse studies/
3?1?2Notion of CDA/
3?1?3Previous studies on CDA/
3?1?4Language, media and society/
3?2Fairclough′s three?dimensional model/
3?3Halliday′s three metafunctions of language/
3?3?1The ideational metafunction/
3?3?2The interpersonal metafunction/
3?3?3The textual metafunction/
3?4Summary/
Chapter 4Analyzing news messages: an approach from CDA/
4?1Data collection and sample cases selection/
4?2Critical analysis of sample reports/
4?2?1Description /
4?2?2Interpretation and explanation /
4?3Summary/
Chapter 5Conclusion/
5?1Findings and implications of the research/
5?2Limitations of the research/
Appendix 1Online Model for Learning the Elements and
Standards of Critical Thinking/
Appendix 2Excerpts From Core Principles of Media
Literacy Education in the United States/
Appendix 3Eight Key Concepts of Media Literacy/
Appendix 4Full Texts of the News Samples/
Appendix 5News Sources in the Samples/
References/