12 American Voices: An Authentic Listening and Integrated Skills Textbook: Instructor's Manual

Twelve American Voices: An Authentic Listening and Integrated Skills Textbook: Instructor's Manual
by MC Hauck
Paperback: 78 pages
Published: September 3, 2001
ISBN-10: 0300089619
ISBN-13: 978-0300089615

Instructor's manual to 12 American Voices: An Authentic Listening and Integrated-Skills Textbook.

This manual contains suggestions on how to most effectively use the broadcasts and lessons in this textbook. The authors have taught these stories to many students and in a wide variety of classrooms. In each case there were differences large and small in how the lessons were taught depending on the goals and orientations of the course and—even more—on the interests and responses of the students. For that reason they would like to begin by emphasizing that their experience and advice are only that. You should accept only that which seems applicable to your own teaching situation.
The authors have organized this manual in the following way: Each chapter begins with a brief Introduction to the Broadcast. These notes include a synopsis of the story and comments on its content and major themes.
This is followed by Culture and Language Notes, which is intended to give background on some points, mostly vocabulary and idiomatic phrases, that might not be readily clear to teachers who have not lived extensively in the United States. This feature may also be helpful for those native-speaking instructors who find themselves teaching a lesson on a corner of American culture with which they are not familiar.
Once you have read these notes and decided to teach the story, the authors suggest that you listen to the broadcast before taking it into the classroom.