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- I chose to experiment with teaching students to read Latin in order, firstly because, as Markus and Ross (2004) point out, the Romans themselves must necessarily have been able to understand Latin in the order in which it was composed as so much of their sharing of literature happened orally.
www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/read-like-a-roman-teaching-students-to-read-in-latin-word-order/73AB9EA656B8B865FB849E8D5B912D5ARead Like a Roman: Teaching Students to Read in Latin Word Order
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Why should we teach students to read in Latin word order? The main reason that McCaffrey states for reading Latin in order is that reading it out of order is in fact harder than sticking to the original text (2009, p.62).
- Katharine Russell
- 2018
May 23, 2018 · I chose to experiment with teaching students to read Latin in order, firstly because, as Markus and Ross (2004) point out, the Romans themselves must necessarily have been able to understand...
- By Fr. William G. Most
- Present Deficiencies
- Former More Successful Methods
- The Rejection of Medieval Latin
- A Living Language Changes
- When Is A Language A Good Language?
- Is It A Good Means of Communication?
- Are Works of Artistic Beauty Written in It?
- The Beginning of The Grammar-Analysis Method
- Change in Objectives of Latin Teaching
N.B. This essay—providing a helpful potted history of Latin teaching methods—is not mine. I have excerpted it from a book now in the public domain and available in a reprint from Mediatrix Press. It has not received the attention it deserves locked in a .pdf on internet archives. I thus reprint it here to help Latin students and teachers understand...
Most Latin teachers will readily admit that Latin is not taught with very great success today. Even after as much as eight years of Latin, students often find it quite an effort to translate fifty lines of Cicero in an hour and even then, they will not always get the sense. Things were not always thus: for about a thousand years after Latin ceased ...
During the Middle Ages, students began the study of Latin between the ages of 5 and 7. The method used was the purely direct method (we do not propose here to revive a purely direct method, for reasons to be indicated later. Rather, we would use its basic principles and advantages and combine them with additional techniques suited to the difference...
When in 1444, Lorenzo Valla published his Elegantiae Latini Sermonis, he called Medieval Latin barbarous, and called for imitation of ancient models. His goal was worthy; yet, as Sandys says in effect, he was really “dealing a death blow to the natural and colloquial use of the living language, and unconsciously promoting the growth of a servile Ci...
The truth that some failed to see is that a living language has to change and to grow. In so doing, it may become better or worse as a language, but the mere fact that it changes does not mean it declines. If it did, we should have to condemn Chaucer for changing the language of Beowulf, and we would also condemn Shakespeare for departing from Chau...
Let us approach the problem carefully: How shall we judge the merits of these periods, or the works written in them? There are two very different questions to be asked, and the answers may differ.
First of all, we ought to ask: Is the language of a given period better or worse as a means of communication? The chief purpose of a language is to convey thought. It ought to do this with ease, accuracy, beauty, and so on. In the measure in which it does this, it is a good means of communication; in the measure in which it fails, it is poor as a l...
The second question to be asked is this: What is the artistic merit of works produced in the various periods of the history of Latin? Here we freely concede that in both the “Classical” and in the Late period, we find quite a variety: both periods produced works that are excellent artistically—and both periods produced works of little or no artisti...
But let us return to those who went to extremes in their imitation of Cicero. They, not understanding these facts, ridiculed Medieval Latin, preferring instead an extreme imitation of Cicero. Their numbers increased. There were a few who protested, such as Erasmus, who, in 1528, satirized the pedantic style of Bembo, Latin secretary to Pope Leo X. ...
Latin teachers, finding one of the chief motives for studying Latin removed, had to find new objectives to uphold. It was about this time that John Locke proposed the theory that schools were primarily for mental discipline, rather than for conveying a content of knowledge to the pupils. The vague implication was that somehow the pupil would acquir...
May 1, 2012 · But, beginning in 3rd grade, students start to encounter the Latin half of English. Latin words are bigger, harder, have more syllables, more abstract meanings, and different pronunciation and spelling patterns. How do we teach the Latin half of English in a systematic orderly way like we do phonics? We don’t. But we should.
Feb 14, 2019 · Studying Latin enables students to learn the Romance languages quicker and with greater ease, because they already know the basic grammar, syntax, and vocabulary that undergirds them. ENGLISH VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR: While English is a Germanic language in its structure, many English words come from Latin.
May 25, 2016 · We Latin teachers have the opportunity to design our courses around the questions that we all have about the ancient world, teaching our students how to investigate their own questions using the Latin language and material culture.
Instead of instructing language merely as a vehicle to convey meaning or intent, Latin compels students to dive deeper into the architecture of language itself. For my third-grade students, Latin gives English a transparent quality.
