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d. You may have taught the student to speak the language a little, but you have not taught him to learn it for himself.

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), begin to complete the course for one reason, but also for a second:

a. You can give to teachers and students something to use in their work together.

But also:

b. You can give to teachers and students an example of how they can complete the course for themselves.

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 Spanish programmatic Course (Appendix D), and by programmed self-instruction in general. Or you may decide:

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