pronunciation has been investigated, and the principle of the communicative supremacy
of the suprasegmental features has been established, the phonology can be
studied in a bottom-up order as suggested earlier. At each stage of the phonological
study, speci®c pedagogical issues related to the aspect of phonology currently in
focus can be addressed.
There is great strength in a task-based approach to the study of phonology within
this strategic approach; Wharton (1998, p. 131) characterises this as ``trainer input
coming as a response to trainee work'', so that in TELT course-participants should
discover heuristically for themselves the phonological principles that have been
selected and ordered, and this discovery would then be supported and extended
through tuition and reading. Good examples of heuristic games and other awareness-raising
and familiarisation activities are presented by Ross (1992); we might
add such ideas as crossword puzzles using phonemic symbols rather than orthographic
letters in the answers.