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5. Although steps 1-4 will produce only an incomplete course, yet what they do produce will be useful to almost anyone who undertakes to teach or learn Sarkhanese. If there is still money in the budget (and there should be), for one reason, but also for a second:

But also:

As you begin to complete the course, follow your own convictions and the needs of some moment. Aim more at effectiveness than at permanence. It is more important that your lessons should work than that they should last (or sell!). You may decide: a. that the most foolproof way to present the essential structures (step 2, above) is through a fixed, se1fcontained 'program' which depends as little as possible on teachers, and as much as possible on books, tapes, and visual aids that you yourself will devise. This is is the route taken by (Appendix D), and by programmed self-instruction in general. Or you may decide: