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 In: Where Do I Go From Here?2 Independence: Creating and Using a Daily Learning Cycle3 Goals: Benchmarks for Evaluation4 Community: Utilizing the Living Classroom5 Plans: The Road to Language Survival6 Techniques and Topics: Where Do I Go When the Pavement Ends?7 Preparation: Getting a Head Start At HomePost-Script: In-Country Training and In Situ LearningSupplementary ReadingAnnotated BibliographyIndex
Terry Marshall grew up in rural Colorado and spent 16 years of his adult life working on Mexican-American and small-town activist causes.
His novel, Soda Springs, will be available from Friesen Press in December 2010. The book won the general fiction/mainstream category of the 2006 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Colorado Gold writing contest (Denver, September 2006).
Marshall's short stories have been published in two anthologies and five literary journals, and he has put together an unpublished collection of short stories tentatively called American Model and Other South Pacific Stories. He has begun work on a new cross-cultural novel set in the Gilbert Islands as that nation sheds British rule and gains its independence in the late 1970s.
Marshall has written three non-fiction books: The Whole World Guide to Language Learning, (Intercultural Press,), a book that shows how to learn unwritten languages; 101 Ways to Find an Overseas Job; and Carlsbad, a book of essays and photographs on Carlsbad, NM.
He has an extensive portfolio of newspaper and magazine articles which includes two national awards, and numerous New Mexico state awards.
In addition to his years as a community activist, Marshall worked as a Head Start director, journalist, researcher, teacher, trainer, printer and linotype operator. He also spent seven years with the U.S. Peace Corps in the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and the agency's Washington, D.C. office. He has a Ph.D. in rural development from Cornell University. These days he lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, and writes full time.
