Beard's SPQR. A History of Ancient Rome as Background Reading in Classical Latin Courses. A Teaching Proposal
Contextual or background knowledge performs an important function in second language learning and reading comprehension, as a number of theoretical and empirical studies have shown (see, for instance, P. L. Carrell, 1983, 1982). To the extent that Ancient Greek and Latin are verbal codes too, they c...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2019-10-01
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Series: | The Journal of Classics Teaching |
Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058631019000291/type/journal_article |