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I'll be back to regular old blogging about classical language pedagogy and other things later this week. If you're after specific things you can do to help me, feeling perhaps some sympathy after last week's katharsis, here's five: 1. You can directly
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This is a follow-up and personal lament to the book review from earlier this week. I submitted my PhD dissertation in late 2016, and received my pass in March 2017. I graduated in September of that year, and it’s now 2019. I had already begun to realise how
Books
This one’s hot off the press, and I read it voraciously over two days. Which given how little time I can normally carve out for reading, is itself a testament to the book. It addresses the American situation. Australia is obviously not identical, but a raft of similar issues
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Since we’re on a bit of a “let’s talk about grammar” roll at the moment, here are some more thoughts on the vexed problem of when to teach some grammar. But first, what is grammar? In my view, when we are talking about Latin and Greek in particular,
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Last week I wrote about how I did plenty of grammar-translation, and I don’t believe that it leads to acquisition. This often surprises people. Let me explain why it’s surprising: Firstly, for those of us who did G-T and did a lot of it, and ended
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Download NTGreekSequencing.mp3 Here's the audio, and slideshow, for a presentation I did late last week, which will be of interest to some of you. Powerpoint Audio
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I get this a lot, of variations on it. Yes, it’s undeniably true that I studied Greek and Latin via grammar translation methods. I did 5 years of Latin at university, all G-T. And I was taught Greek via G-T. And at the end of 5 years
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As I've been working on Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata, I've had more of a chance to reflect on Ørberg's methodology in LLPSI, but also principles of SLA, how to sequence a text, and how to shelter vocabulary and/or morphology for students. It
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I’ve been a bit behind in my blogging; I have some half-finished materials but the busyness of general life has been rather much lately. This is a question that was put to me, and I thought it worth making into a post. The answer is, “only if we
Greek
One of the things I have been reflecting on recently, both in reading a fair bit, but also working on the composition of LGPSI, is how useful it is, and would be, to take the WAYK concept of “same conversation” and apply it at the text level. Same conversation is
Greek
One of the things I've become increasingly aware of as a strategy for developing greater comprehension and fluency, is what I've taken to calling 'reading sideways'. In particular, this has crystallised for me lately while reflecting on my reading through the Lingua Latina Per
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Having been asked about how you teach the Greek perfect, or even how you figure it out, I thought I’d start by surveying a range of books that I have to hand or easy access to, to see what they say about the Perfect. The Greek perfect tense for