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‘Shelter vocabulary, not grammar’
If we promote CI teaching on the grounds that we are using a more rigorous, research-backed methodology, we need to base our pedagogical advice on what actual research is saying, or at least make it clear when we are speaking from carefully tested science and when we are speaking from messy, subjective experience. ‘Shelter vocabulary, Read more
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“Latin autodidacts, you’re working way too hard!” – How to learn Latin by yourself in 2023
Edit: I read aloud this essay in the two videos below! I started writing this essay, which grew to over 16,000 words, with the goal of explaining ‘how to learn Latin on a budget in 2023: the most cost-effective autodidact strategies’. But during its month-long writing process, the essay turned into ‘how not to be Read more
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Comparison table of self-paced communicative Latin courses
TL;DR? Click here to jump straight to the table without any preamble. We’ve had a look at the options for taking live online Latin classes in 2023, but what if the pressure of keeping up with a cohort of students is not best suited to you? What if you need something more flexible to your Read more
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Comparison table of Online Communicative Latin Classes
TL;DR? Click here to jump straight to the table without any preamble. In the last decade, even before the pandemic, we’ve seen an increase in the number of adult learning programs which teach Latin via natural methods through online classes. Shall we say, there’s been a boom of Latin taught on Zoom. These programs are Read more
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Thoughts about practically implementing SSR (Sustained Silent Reading)
I posted this on the Latin teacher facebook group, Latin Best Practices: The Next Generation in Comprehensible Input, talking informally about the kinds of problems I’ve come across in my first year of implementing Sustained Silent Reading (SSR), a reading activity where you allow students to select a novella of their choice and read it Read more
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Christmas Story lesson activities
In 2022 I made a Latin video in which I retold the Christmas nativity story in Latin using pictures from a picture storybook. (The version below is told in Classical pronunciation, but I also made an Ecclesiastical version in case that was your school’s preferred pronunciation.) Now I’ve made a sequence of lesson activities for Read more