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/