The methodology developed for use in a U.S.-sponsored radio-based English language arts program for grades 1-3 in Kenya, adapted to the special circumstances of the medium, the context, and the program's administrative limitations, is a highly interactive radio lesson whose most important organizational characteristics are adherence to distributed-learning principles in instructional design and the use of a semantically-based, functional-notional syllabus to organize the elements of instruction. The Radio Language Arts Program series of lessons uses direct-method language teaching principles, using post-audiolingual techniques, in particular cognitively-grounded pattern exercises, when appropriate and where the limitations of instructional broadcasting justify their use. The methodology and materials used reflect the program's philosophical orientation to generative-transformational language theory. (MSE)