what can be added to provide additional strength without too much increase in the weight and opacity of the total unit?
Augmentation in this sense may be more cautious in adding to the original, or less so.
The suggestions in this appendix lie in three different 'orbits'[1] around each of the first five units of SPC:
Inner orbit: student pronounces few or no words that the program has not taught him to pronounce.
Middle orbit: student uses some new words, but within structures that he has learned from the program.
Outer orbit: May contain new structures as well as new words.
Unit 1.
This unit is devoted entirely to matters of pronunciation, but the student himself says nothing at all in English during the whole unit. There is not even any treatment of the vowels and consonants of the language. The student is required only to show by means of his English or non-linguistic responses that he can (1) differentiate stressed from unstressed syllables, and (2) identify three different intonation contours. The lesson may therefore be analyzed as follows:
- ↑ The word 'orbit' is intended for use only in this appendix.
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