Raise the Issues: An Integrated Approach to Critical Thinking - Couverture souple

Numrich, Carol

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801310148 ISBN 13 : 9780801310140

Editeur : Pearson Education (US), 1997

Synopsis

This work features original broadcasts with authentic newspaper and magazine editorials, presenting dual viewpoints on stimulating contemporary topics and developing students' critical thinking skills.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

An exciting, proven approach to listening comprehension and discussion, based on authentic radio broadcasts from NPR's "All Things Considered," "Weekend Edition," and "Morning Edition." Students are presented with interesting, relevant content in unedited everyday speech including hesitations, redundancies, and various dialectical patterns.

The series:

• Develops essential listening strategies, including predicting, looking at language, understanding main ideas and points of view, focusing on details, and note-taking.
• Fosters critical thinking skills through follow-up activities that include discussion, debate, values clarification, and writing assignments.
• Integrates language and concepts through sophisticated grammar and vocabulary activities.

Audio programs comprising original radio broadcasts are available for each book. (Audioscripts appear in separate Answer Key for Raise the Issues, Second Edition). Raise the Issues:

• Integrates all four skills while encouraging students to think critically about American attitudes and values.
• Combines original broadcasts with authentic webzine, magazine, and newspaper articles, and editorials to present different viewpoints.
• Features units on current issues ranging from genetic engineering to the effects of the Internet.

Audio Sample

Listen to a sample from the audio CDs:

From Unit 2: Better Dead than Coed (3:21)

 

Click here to order the Audio Program.

 

The NPR series also includes the Consider the Issues and the new edition of Face the Issues.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Raise the Issues helps advanced students develop critical thinking skills as they gain insight into American Attitudes and values. It combines original broadcasts from NPR® with authentic articls from publications such as The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and the International Herald-Tribune to present dffering viewpoints on contemporary topics. Each of the ten units provides stimulating content that integrates listening, reading, speaking, and writing. As students clarify, interpret, and evaluate ideas from the material, they improve their command of sophisticated vocabulary and complex structures.

 

The third edition features five new units on topical issues such as international adoptions, immigration, alternative energy, and the place of sports in higher education.

 

See also:

 

Face the Issues, Third Edition

Consider the Issues, Third Edition

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education (US)
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801310148
• ISBN 13: 9780801310140
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 241
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible