Raise the Issues: An Integrated Approach to Critical Thinking - Softcover

Numrich, Carol

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9780801310140: Raise the Issues: An Integrated Approach to Critical Thinking
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801310148 ISBN 13: 9780801310140
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, 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.

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From the Back Cover

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)

 

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

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Publisher
Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801310148
ISBN 13 
9780801310140
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
241
Rating
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