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I was disappointed not to go to the North American Patristics Society' conference for 2016, but I do not regret my decision not to go this year. Here's what not-going did for me: 1. I saved about $2000-3000 dollars and 4 days worth of air
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When I teach students who have (some) Greek (these are usually biblical studies/theology students), my go-to method is to use a text-based approach and in particular I tend to get them straight into John's Gospel in the Vulgate. Some classicists seem a little down on
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It's been a few months since I wrote one of these posts. Honestly, I have little to report - all my side projects have slowed to almost nothing at present. Most of my time is currently devoted to thesis-writing, the small amount of tutoring I do, and looking
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I've had the experience of alternately learning and teaching languages online for about 5, hedging on 6, years now. I've learnt, and taught, 1-to-1, 1-to-many, though never many-to-1 (I'm not sure that's a model that helps
Pedagogy
Lately I’ve been reading a bit about bilingualism in children, and some academic articles relating to language shift in Gàidhlig. They caused me to also reflect a little about what the broader goals of teaching classical languages, e.g. Latin, Greek, κτλ., via communicative methods are. It’s not
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Not really a state of the projects, since most of my projects have been sidelined recently... My wife and I just had a baby girl, Sorcha (here if you want some pronunciation help), who turned up a few weeks early. Wonderful times but it did throw a spanner in my
Greek
I don't know if it is, but I suspect that it might be. (You'd need a fairly wide-ranging study to establish it) This past week I've been marking some exegetical papers by new second-year Greek students, and as they struggle to turn
Language
I'm trying to cultivate a new habit, and the title is it. Everytime I find myself writing something like, "the word ὑπόστασις means "blah de blah blah'", I stop and rewrite it to something more like, "the word ὑπόστασις translates as 'blah&
Greek
(I'm mostly in the midst of doing a lot of thesis writing, but thought I could take some time out to ride a hobby horse). * Knowing a language isn't a qualification for teaching a language. We usually think that knowing something is a pre-requisite for
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Yesterday (well, today if you're living in the past like the USA) is/was International Mother Language Day, and I thought I'd write some thoughts about it. My mother tongue is English. I sometimes wish it wasn't, but it is just an accidence [sic]
Thesis
Most of my training in biblical studies occurred in a Reformed Protestant context, for which I am quite thankful. However, one of the problems of Protestant perspectives on early church history is a tendency to think, "right doctrines, dodgy exegesis". The narrative constructed is that the early church
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A few days ago this post appeared highlighting a new feature for Logos users, at least those on the subscription Logos Now model (which I am not). As a big advocate of reader's editions for students to move into more fluent and extended reading, I was pleased to