TY - SOUND AU - Numrich,Carol TI - Face the issues: intermediate listening and critical thinking skills SN - 9780131992207 AV - PE1128.P361.F334 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - [Upper Saddle River, New Jersey] PB - Pearson Education, Incorporated KW - English language KW - Sound recordings for foreign speakers KW - Critical thinking KW - Problems, exercises, etc KW - Listening N1 - Compact disc; 2 N2 - Each of the twelve units is based on an authentic radio broadcast taken from National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition". By using material produced for native speakers, students are presented with unedited everyday speech, including hesitations, redundancies, and various dialectical patterns. Exercises develop essential listening strategies such as predicting, looking at language, understanding main ideas and points of view, and focusing on details ER -