Looking for an on-line English version of the 1946 Principles for Beginning Language Instruction provided me with an example of the resilience of the Fediverse. The ruhrspora server disappeared with my Diaspora* account. But searches turn up old posts on other
#Diaspora* servers. It's not like
#geocities where everything disappeared (I think?) and only archived pages are still around.
EN:
https://diasp.org/posts/8058489 JA:
https://diasp.org/posts/8058507https://diasp.org/tags/beginningenglish #Fediverse
Notes on Principles of Beginning Language Instruction
Notes on Principles of Beginning Language Instruction
We learn a new sentence or sentence element by seeing how it applies in a situation.
We teach by so presenting the sentence and the situation together that this is seen.
In what follows, the abbreviation SEN-SIT will be used for this unit made up of a sentence in the situation which gives it meaning.
Teaching a language effectively consists of inventing, arranging, presenting, and testing SEN-SIT s.
For each language there is an ideal order in which its SEN-SIT s should be arranged.
In this ideal order:
The ambiguity of each SEN-SIT, in its place in the order, is minimal.
Each SEN-SIT prepares for those to come.
Each SEN-SIT is confirmed by those which follow.
Disturbance by new SEN-SIT s of SEN-SIT s taught earlier is minimal.
As organic sequence in which each step supports and is supported by the others may be achieved by GRADING. Grading, thus understood, is a qualitative matter of the relations between parts in the...
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