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Whole World Guide to Language Learning
If you are going abroad and want to learn the language of your host country, The Whole World Guide To Language Learning is the book for you! Whether you enroll in formal language classes or work language learning into a busy schedule, Terry Marshall's in situ (on location) approach to language learning will fit your needs.The two cornerstones of Marshall's method are the use of a mentor (a native speaker who lives in the community and serves as your guide) and what he calls the daily learning cycle of planning, practicing, communicating face-to-face and evaluating. This framework allows enormous flexibility to fit your ability level, location and time constraints. It gives you the responsibility for your learning in real interactive situations and then provides immediate feedback. Marshall gives six detailed lesson plans to get you started and plenty of ideas for further lessons, putting you in control of your language learning experience.Contents1 Settling Where Do I Go From Here?2 Creating and Using a Daily Learning Cycle3 Benchmarks for Evaluation4 Utilizing the Living Classroom5 The Road to Language Survival6 Techniques and Where Do I Go When the Pavement Ends?7 Getting a Head Start At In-Country Training and In Situ LearningSupplementary ReadingAnnotated BibliographyIndex
173 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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About the author
Terry Marshall
11 books1 followerIn the early ’60s, Terry Marshall harnessed words to exhort, to inflame, to skewer, to instigate, to infuriate. His words so incensed a powerful U.S. Senator and a University Regent that the University of Colorado nearly kicked him out.
But it wasn’t all passion and vitriol. He also commanded words to entertain, amuse, entreat, endear, beguile, and eventually persuade his best friend, Ann, to forsake her avowed soul mate to marry Terry instead.
Ann and Terry moved into the Chicano barrio in his hometown, where he stirred the pot of discrimination and motivated locals to action. Their next-door neighbor bought their rented house, then evicted them. The Methodist church asked them to quit attending services. The American Legion invited Terry to speak, then kicked him out before he could begin his talk. For his efforts, The Denver Post dubbed him “Rural Colorado’s Hometown Revolutionary.”
Terry earned an M.A. (Wisconsin) and Ph.D. (Cornell), and marshaled the argot of sociology to examine, analyze, and counter societal forces that subjugated Mexican-Americans in his hometown and limited their access to the life and liberties reserved for Anglos.
Along the way, he was a newspaper reporter and editor; Head Start director; Robert F. Kennedy Fellow, Peace Corps Volunteer (Philippines) and later Peace Corps country co-director with Ann in three Pacific island nations (Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Tuvalu).
His first two books were non-fiction: The Whole World Guide to Language Learning, a hands-on guide to learning unwritten languages; and Carlsbad, a coffee table book that invites readers into the intriguing town of Carlsbad, NM.
His short stories highlight the unexpected twists and turns that transpire when men and women of different cultures collide.
His first novel, Soda Springs: Love, Sex, and Civil Rights, is a coming of age tale set in the Mexican-American battle for civil rights in 1963. It confronts those topics we were taught to steer clear of in polite company: sex . . . religion . . . politics . . . and racial conflict.
His novel-in-progress, Return to Tarawa, takes readers into the lives of unforgettable characters in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. At the dawn of independence, the British colony faces severe threats to its economic and environmental survival. When the U.S. rides to the rescue, love, hate, and good intentions gone awry foul the pristine waters.
Currently, Terry and Ann are reliving their unlikely romance in A Rendezvous to Remember: Love in the Cold War. It’s a tale of three idealists, two love affairs, one Corvette Sting Ray, and a European adventure at the dawn of the 1960s.
As Peter Yarrow summarizes his career, “The characters we were portraying were ourselves; the story line was created by the time in which we lived.” Like Peter Paul and Mary, Terry and Ann invite readers to experience the angst of life in the shadows of Vietnam, the Sexual Revolution, the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War.
Sandra Jonas Publishing House will publish A Rendezvous to Remember in January 2021.
But it wasn’t all passion and vitriol. He also commanded words to entertain, amuse, entreat, endear, beguile, and eventually persuade his best friend, Ann, to forsake her avowed soul mate to marry Terry instead.
Ann and Terry moved into the Chicano barrio in his hometown, where he stirred the pot of discrimination and motivated locals to action. Their next-door neighbor bought their rented house, then evicted them. The Methodist church asked them to quit attending services. The American Legion invited Terry to speak, then kicked him out before he could begin his talk. For his efforts, The Denver Post dubbed him “Rural Colorado’s Hometown Revolutionary.”
Terry earned an M.A. (Wisconsin) and Ph.D. (Cornell), and marshaled the argot of sociology to examine, analyze, and counter societal forces that subjugated Mexican-Americans in his hometown and limited their access to the life and liberties reserved for Anglos.
Along the way, he was a newspaper reporter and editor; Head Start director; Robert F. Kennedy Fellow, Peace Corps Volunteer (Philippines) and later Peace Corps country co-director with Ann in three Pacific island nations (Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Tuvalu).
His first two books were non-fiction: The Whole World Guide to Language Learning, a hands-on guide to learning unwritten languages; and Carlsbad, a coffee table book that invites readers into the intriguing town of Carlsbad, NM.
His short stories highlight the unexpected twists and turns that transpire when men and women of different cultures collide.
His first novel, Soda Springs: Love, Sex, and Civil Rights, is a coming of age tale set in the Mexican-American battle for civil rights in 1963. It confronts those topics we were taught to steer clear of in polite company: sex . . . religion . . . politics . . . and racial conflict.
His novel-in-progress, Return to Tarawa, takes readers into the lives of unforgettable characters in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. At the dawn of independence, the British colony faces severe threats to its economic and environmental survival. When the U.S. rides to the rescue, love, hate, and good intentions gone awry foul the pristine waters.
Currently, Terry and Ann are reliving their unlikely romance in A Rendezvous to Remember: Love in the Cold War. It’s a tale of three idealists, two love affairs, one Corvette Sting Ray, and a European adventure at the dawn of the 1960s.
As Peter Yarrow summarizes his career, “The characters we were portraying were ourselves; the story line was created by the time in which we lived.” Like Peter Paul and Mary, Terry and Ann invite readers to experience the angst of life in the shadows of Vietnam, the Sexual Revolution, the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War.
Sandra Jonas Publishing House will publish A Rendezvous to Remember in January 2021.
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