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Twelve American voices : an authentic listening and integrated-skills textbook / Maurice Cogan Hauck with Kenneth MacDougall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hauck, Maurice Cogan, 1966-
- Series:
- Yale language series.
- Yale language series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
- English language.
- Listening--Problems, exercises, etc.
- Listening.
- Readers--United States.
- Readers.
- United States--Social life and customs--Problems, exercises, etc.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- 12 American voices
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Designed for non-native speakers of English, Twelve American Voices presents a series of entertaining and culturally rich radio documentaries by award-winning producer David Isay. These stories, which were first broadcast on National Public Radio, focus on a range of individuals living and working in contemporary America, from an immigrant Chinese restaurant owner in New York City to an African-American waitress who helped integrate a Southern lunch counter, from the owner of a pawnship-wedding chapel to a retired couple who have become disk jockeys. As students listen to these stories, they hear a variety of regional and ethnic "Englishes" and are introduced to some corners of American culture that are rarely seen in the media. In addition to transcripts of the documentaries, the book includes thought-provoking exercises that encourage students to analyze the language in the stories and to respond in both oral and written form. A CD of the broadcasts is included. Also available are an instructor's manual and a cassette for language labs (both free).
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- To the Instructor
- To the Student
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Hunan Chef
- 2. The Nixie Clerk
- 3. Airplane Ashes
- 4. Chained Girl
- 5. Senior DJs
- 6. Advance Obituaries
- 7. Diaryman
- 8. Passover Wine
- 9. The Joe Franklin Show
- 10. Kipperman's Pawnshop and Wedding Chapel
- 11. Woolworth's Lunch Counter
- 12. Cynical Santa
- Answers
- Transcripts
- Notes:
- "Based on National Radio Documentaries by David Isay."
- ISBN:
- 0-300-13049-X
- OCLC:
- 1024046443
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