Communicative Approaches for Ancient Languages

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
FIGURES
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
	What do we mean by communicative approaches?
	What will you find about communicative approaches in this book?
	What next?
PART 1 INTRODUCING COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES IN SCHOOL SETTINGS
	CHAPTER 1 ACTIVE LATIN IN THE CLASSROOM: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
	CHAPTER 2 ACTIVE LATIN PROMOTES OPEN-MINDEDNESS IN LANGUAGE-LEARNING
	CHAPTER 3 LIVE LATIN: GLOBAL EXPERIMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE’S CLASSROOM
		Experiments at King Edward VI School 2018–19
		Live Latin
		Familia Romana in the classroom: A Year 12 student and Year 9 class
	CHAPTER 4 COMMUNICATION IN ALL MODES AS EFFICIENT PREPARATION FOR READING A TEXT
		Introduction
		Preliminary analysis of a passage
		Listening
		Personalized questions and answers
		Storytelling with visual support
		Writing
		Conclusion
	CHAPTER 5 FROM READING TO WORLD-BUILDING: COLLABORATIVE CONTENT CREATION AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGE-LEARNING
	CHAPTER 6 ACTIVE LATIN TEACHING FOR THE INCLUSIVE CLASSROOM
		Teaching talking
		Teaching culture
		Conclusion
PART 2 INTRODUCING COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES IN UNIVERSITY SETTINGS
	CHAPTER 7 EXPLORING COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES FOR BEGINNERS
		Introduction
		Communicative activities
		Questioning based on LLPSI stories
		Conclusions
	CHAPTER 8 COMMUNICATIVE LATIN FOR ALL IN A UK UNIVERSITY
		Why change?
		The students at Warwick
		Previous approaches
		Teaching myself
		Planning a new approach
		Using Familia Romana
		Outcomes: subjective
		Outcomes: examination results
		Beyond beginners
		Future directions
	CHAPTER 9 ACTIVE LATIN IN THE TROPICS: AN EXPERIENCE WITH NEO-LATIN IN BRAZIL
	CHAPTER 10 THE USE OF LUDI DOMESTICI IN COMMUNICATIVE LATIN
		Note
	CHAPTER 11 TEACHING LATIN COMMUNICATIVELY TO POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
		Introduction
		What do I mean by communicative approaches?
		What are we learning for?
		Compelling reading
		Specific areas of teaching practice
		Moving forward
		Conclusion
PART 3 TOTAL IMMERSION IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL SETTINGS
	CHAPTER 12 GLOBAL LATIN, ACTIVE LATIN: KENTUCKY AND BEYOND
		Conventiculum Latinum Lexintoniense (Terence Tunberg)
		Institutum studiis Latinis provehendis (Milena Minkova)
	CHAPTER 13 A CONVENTICULUM FOR SPEAKERS OF ANCIENT GREEK: THE LEXINGTON ΣΥΝΟΔΟΣ ἙΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ
		The σύνοδος: An outline
		The σύνοδος and SLA: Research and practice
		Conclusion
		Note
	CHAPTER 14 TEACHING ANCIENT GREEK BY THE POLIS METHOD
		Introduction: Jerusalem, the Polis Institute and the method
		First steps: Communicating in the Hic & Nunc
		Settling in: Narrating in the past
		Becoming independent: Reading authentic texts without translating them
		Conclusion: Total immersion – a challenge worth accepting
	CHAPTER 15 GOALS AND METHODS IN TEACHING BIBLICAL LANGUAGES AND EXEGESIS: A VIEW FROM THE SEMINARY
		Pedagogical goals and their importance
		The problem of definitions: ‘Knowing’, ‘learning’, ‘reading’
		Goals in modern language education
		Pedagogical goals in university modern language programmes
		‘Learning’ Ancient Greek
		‘Reading’ Ancient Greek
		The goals of Ancient Greek classes: The status quo
		Modern language syllabi
		Biblical language syllabi
		The way forward
		Practical challenges
		The challenge of exegesis in the communicative classroom
		Two exegetical examples
		Conclusion
	CHAPTER 16 LATIN TEACHING IN POLAND: A NEW RENAISSANCE WITH COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES?
		Introduction
		Part 1
		Part 2
		Part 3
		Our proposal
		Conclusions
		Postscript
	CHAPTER 17 STUDENT-LED INITIATIVES AT OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE
		The Oxford Latinitas Project (Iván Parga Ornelas)
		Circulus Latinus Cantabrigiensis (Josey Parker)
PART 4 VARIED APPROACHES IN UNUSUAL SETTINGS
	CHAPTER 18 NEW APPROACHES TO ANCIENT LANGUAGES: THE PAIDEIA INSTITUTE’S PEDAGOGY
		Introduction
		Telepaideia : communicative approaches and new technologies
		Fostering a Living Latin approach
		Paideia’s flagship course: Living Latin in Rome
		Conclusion
	CHAPTER 19 THE LATINITIUM PROJECT
		Background
		Materials adapted for the modern age
		Latinitium’s resources
		Pugio Bruti: A Crime Story in Easy Latin
		Resource usage and feedback
		Challenges
		Lessons learned
		Conclusion
	CHAPTER 20 PRIMARY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF LATIN IN BILINGUAL CHILDREN: A CASE STUDY
		Introduction
		Linguistic environment
		Latin language milestones
		Conclusions
REFERENCES
ABBREVIATIONS
INDEX