Starting to Teach Latin

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

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This book for teachers provides both practical, up-to-date guidance and a theoretical overview on a number of key topics in Latin teaching. Updated throughout, this new edition includes information about and analysis of recent Latin textbook publications and curriculum developments across the globe. Using a wealth of interviews, observations and pupil transcripts, Steven Hunt utilizes case-study evidence of excellent practice in teaching and learning from a wide variety of institutions: from outreach programmes, community schools and academies in the UK and USA. Offering practical advice on topics such as essay writing, teaching controversial topics including women, slavery, ethnicity and social hierarchy, making use of primary sources and using ICT to advance language skills, this book also engages with broader questions of approach and theory. These include a survey of the three main approaches to Latin teaching: grammar-translation, communicative and reading approaches; explanation of cognitive and social approaches to learning; and analysis of the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Moreover, traditional arguments about the value and purpose of learning Latin at school level are re-examined in the light of current educational thinking and government policy-making. This book is invaluable for trainees, newly qualified teachers and more experienced practitioners looking for practical ideas and strategies to motivate and engage learners of Latin.

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This book is a rich resource for all teachers or aspiring teachers of Latin. It draws on the latest educational theory and is packed full of practical advice on how to teach Latin effectively to pupils of all backgrounds and abilities. -- Classics for All

Author Bio

Steven Hunt is Senior Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he is Subject Lecturer for the PGCE in Latin and Classics. He has taught Classics for over twenty years in state comprehensive schools and is author of Teaching Latin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), and co-editor of Communicative Approaches for Ancient Languages (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), Teaching Classics with Technology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and Forward with Classics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). Hunt is Editor of the Journal of Classics Teaching, contributes regularly to CPD events at national and international levels, and is a consultant and trainer for the UK charity Classics for All.