On Language Teaching
‘Anyone can teach Latin, while teaching Greek is hard’. ‘Introductory language courses are easier to teach than intermediate/text-based courses’. These are views that the author of this article has heard voiced in Classics departments on both sides of the Atlantic. They reflect underlying assumption...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2018-04-01
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Series: | The Journal of Classics Teaching |
Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058631018000077/type/journal_article |
Summary: | ‘Anyone can teach Latin, while teaching Greek is hard’. ‘Introductory language courses are easier to teach than intermediate/text-based courses’. These are views that the author of this article has heard voiced in Classics departments on both sides of the Atlantic. They reflect underlying assumptions about language teaching that often have very practical effects on who is assigned what kinds of teaching, and how those instructors approach their task. |
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ISSN: | 2058-6310 |