Adapting and Writing Language Lessons

by Earl W. Stevick

ADAPTING AND WRITING
LANGUAGE LESSONS

This work was compiled and published with the support of the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, United States of America.

EARL W. STEVICK

FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE

WASHINGTON, D.C.

1971

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE

BASIC COURSE SERIES

Edited by

AUGUSTUS A. KOSKI

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface		iii
Introduction		vii
Acknowledgments		viii
1.	What Seems to Be What in Language Teaching	1
2.	Working Assumptions, and the Modular Approach to Materials Development	28
3.	Evaluating and Adapting Language Materials	44
	Appendix A: Adapting a Dialog-Drill Format (Spanish)	66
	Appendix B: Adapting a 'Microwave' Format (Telugu)	74
	Appendix C: Adapting a Pattern-Practice Format (English)	84
	Appendix D: Adapting a Self-Instructional Format (Spanish)	96
	Appendix E: Adapting a Lesson Based on a Prose Text (Mauritian Creole)	115
	Appendix F: A Lesson for Discussion by Readers (Igbo)	123
4.	Writing Adaptable Materials	131
	Appendix G: Mutually Derivable Materials in Technical Specialties (Thai)	154
	Appendix H: Mutual Complementation of English and Swahili Materials in Training for East Africa	189
	Appendix I: Clusters as Supplements (Portuguese)	203
	Appendix J: Relevance under stress (Spanish)	215
	Appendix K: Unsequenced Presentation of Structures (Swahili)	220
	Appendix L: Materials for Discussion by Readers (French)	225
5.	Learners Synopses	230
	Appendix M: A Learners Synopsis of Thai	235
	Appendix N: A Learners Synopsis of Swahili Structure	258
	Appendix O: Part of a Learners Synopsis of Kirundi Structure	284
6.	Cummings Devices	310
	Appendix P: The Cummings Principle in Another Format (English)	331
	Appendix Q: Cummings Devices in a Do-it-yourself Kit (Kikuyu)	337
	Appendix R: Cummings Devices in a Task-Centered Course (Ponapean)	346
7.	Microtexts	365
	Appendix S: Microtexts as Parts of a Basic Course (Luganda)	381
	Appendix T: Microtexts as Centers for Lessons (Swahili)	387
8.	Routine Manipulations	391
	Appendix U: Manipulations Based on News Items (Swahili)	403
9.	Perspective	431
References		433
Index		445