Burns, N. 1984

Burns, Nadine T. 1984. "Functors and discourse analysis in Quechua primer design." Notes on Literacy. Interest level: specialist.

Aims to keep the learning load of each primer lesson low. Does not postpone longer than necessary the use of connected material in natural-sounding narrative style of discourse. Most of the functors of Quechua are suffixes. Followed these guidelines:

• Determined order of presentation of letters and letter positions within the syllable by selecting suffixes of which they were component parts.
• Selected suffixes on the basis of their productivity within the literary styles possible at each level of the primer lessons.
• Selected and combined literary styles according to the complexity of the suffixes they required.

For beginning lessons, uses four literary styles that require fewer functors for natural expression than the narrative style:

• Corroborative question-answer
• Riddle
• Poetry
• Dialogue

Describes using a flip chart so suffixes are never isolated from the words of which they are constituents. Chart has vertical columns for contrasting stems, with the same suffixes, and the same stems with contrasting suffixes or strings of suffixes.

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