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'''Tracy Dale Terrell''' (June 23, 1943{{snd}}December 2, 1991)<ref name=SSDI /> was an American [[education]] theorist who, along with [[Stephen Krashen]], wrote ''The Natural Approach''. The [[natural approach]] is a [[comprehension approach|comprehension-based]] [[language learning]] [[methodology]] which  emphasizes the idea of exposure and the lowering of affective or emotional barriers to learning.

Terrell was a professor at the [[University of California, San Diego]].

==Career==
Tracy D. Terrell graduated from the [[University of Texas at Austin]] with a Ph.D. in [[linguistics]] and in a comparatively short career of twenty-two years became one of the most important American Hispanists and theoretical linguists.  He taught at the [[University of California, Irvine]] from 1970 until 1985 when he accepted a position in the linguistics department at the University of California, San Diego.  He retired in 1989, finally succumbing to [[AIDS]] in 1991.  He is credited along with [[Stephen Krashen]] with the development of the “Natural Approach” to second language learning, now a widely utilized method of teaching second languages. In addition, he is widely respected for his work in Hispanic linguistics.  Dr. Terrell was fluent in [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], and [[Dutch language|Dutch]]—for which he had a special affection.

==Partial bibliography==
*''The natural approach: Language acquisition in the classroom'', Hayward, CA : Alemany Press, 1983.
*''Dos Mundos'', Spanish language textbook, McGraw-Hill
*''Deux Mondes'', French language textbook, McGraw-Hill
*''Kontakte'', German language textbook, McGraw-Hill
*''Bravo'', Spanish language textbook, Glencoe (McGraw-Hill)

===Journal articles===
*Terrell, T. D. (1980). A Natural Approach to the Teaching of Verb Forms and Function in Spanish. Foreign Language Annals, 13(2), 129-136.
*Krashen, S. D., Terrell, T. D., Ehrman, M. E., & Herzog, M. (1984). A Theoretical Basis for Teaching the Receptive Skills. Foreign Language Annals, 17(4), 261–275.
*Terrell, T. D. (1977). A Natural Approach to Second Language Acquisition and Learning1. The Modern Language Journal, 61(7), 325–337.

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