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Category Archives: Greek Pedagogy
Exegesis vs. Reading? Or, How to Dismantle an Atomistic Bomb
I ran across this quote on the B-Greek discussion list today: “I define ‘exegesis’ as learning to extract meaning from a language that one does not control.” (Randall Buth) What do you think about that quote? I find it very interesting … Continue reading
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Can You Teach Kids Ancient Greek?
I’m pleased to have another guest post from Dr. Sebastian Carnazzo (see the first here). He teaches Greek communicatively with the Academy of Classical Languages through an interactive online format. Here’s Sebastian’s report on his experience teaching 2nd graders to speak and read … Continue reading
Greek Vocabulary: Are we cooking the books?
Undoubtedly the best-selling Koine Greek textbook used in seminaries and colleges throughout North America is Bill Mounce’s user-friendly grammar, Basics of Biblical Greek, which is now in its 3rd edition. Mounce requires students to cover 320 NT vocabulary words in … Continue reading
Living Koine Greek in South Africa! (Guest Post)
Readers, I’m excited to present this guest post by Sebastian Carnazzo. He teaches Greek communicatively with the Academy of Classical Languages through an interactive online format. You definitely need to check out the video samples on his website (on the … Continue reading
An Interview About Greek Pedagogy
You might be interested in checking out a fairly substantial written interview I did with Thomas Hudgins about communicative Greek pedagogy. He has just posted it over at his blog. Thomas is an Ed.D. student at Southeastern Seminary in North Carolina. To … Continue reading
Demand Change!
You say you want a revolution in Greek teaching? I do too! But what is needed to bring about such a pedagogical reformation? I think the history of foreign language teaching in the United States can give us some idea. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bourgeiosie, Change, Che, die Schnuffen, Fluency, Foreign-Language Teaching, Grammar-Translation Method
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Naming the Movement
Every Movement Needs a Name I have often wondered how to name the movement (of which I am a part) to teach Koine Greek as a living language. I think every movement needs a good tag to be successful, one … Continue reading
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Tagged Communicative Language Teaching, Fluency, Krashen, Names, Natural Language Learning, Reading Fluency
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Setting the Bar at Fluency, pt. 1 (SBL 2012 Report)
This post is the third post in my report on the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, held Nov 17-20 in Chicago. Here are the first and second parts. In its second session, our Applied Linguistics group hosted a panel to address the question, “Where should we … Continue reading
Where Should We Set the Bar in Biblical Language Training? (SBL 2012 Report)
This post is part 2 of my report on the the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, held Nov 17-20 in Chicago. Here is the first part. In its second session, our Applied Linguistics group hosted a panel to address the question, “Where should we … Continue reading
Posted in Greek Pedagogy
Tagged Ancient Greek, Curriculum, ETS, Goals, Greek Pedagogy, New Testament Greek, SBL, Seminaries, Society of Biblical Literature
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