Teachers who apply communicative language to a classrom run up against challenges and questions about ways to handle many details in language teaching. Are their any issues that might be demonstrated, tried out, or receive group advice for applying communicative language teaching to an ancient language classroom?
For example, if there were sufficient collective interest on a particular aspect of language teaching, we might work together in a two and one-half hour workshop session. This might provide some significant time for a cross-fertilization of ideas on setting up efficient contexts for a particular item. Work could be done in realtime with immediate trials of some of the ideas.
We would like to hear from teachers what they might like to work on if we had a 150 minute workshop slot at an annual meeting. Specific suggestions for workshop items may be placed on this blog as comments. Let us find ways to help each other. We would like to hear if there are any recurring, widely felt issues out there that would make a helpful ALBL workshop session.
What is reading? What is involved when humans ‘read’ a text? What enhances comprehension when reading? What hinders or prevents comprehension? How might any of this affect pedagogy? How do we become better readers of second languages? What questions are needing research?
Committee members of the Applied Linguistics Groups at both ETS and SBL were quite favorable with the suggestion of organizing a session on reading. The psycholinguistics and pedagogy of Reading is an obvious, unifying concern for anyone involved with ancient languages. It is hoped that persons with different theoretical and practical backgrounds would be prepared to make presentations. The biggest question for such a session may be finding the right people who will be ready to make contributions next year. Those who have a suggestion for either a reading-oriented paper or know of someone working on such projects are requested to respond by email to Randall Buth. You may also leave session requests as comments.
Applied Linguistics for Biblical Languages
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
11/20/2011
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Immersion Classrooms: Ancient Language
James J. Asher is an invited guest lecturer. He is the originator of Total Physical Response, known worldwide as TPR
Brian Schultz, Fresno Pacific University, Presiding
James J. Asher, Originator of Total Physical Response, TPR-World
Learning Languages in the 21st Century Part 1 and Part 2, (60 min)
Anna Phillips, Grace Evangelical College & Seminary
Practical Considerations for the Beginning of an Immersion Classroom in an Ancient Language (30 min)
Lee M. Fields, Mid-Atlantic Christian University
Teaching Greek Aspect Using Communicative Methods: Preparation and Practice (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)
Applied Linguistics for Biblical Languages
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
11/20/2011
Room 2008
Immersion Classroom: Hebrew and Greek
Robert Stallman, Northwest University (Washington), Presiding
Brian Schultz, Fresno Pacific University
Communicative Language Teaching: A Practical “How-to” for the First Steps (30 min)
Raymond Van Leeuwen, Eastern University
Those Tricky Sequential Verbs: Getting Students to Hear and See the Patterns (30 min)
Randall Buth, Biblical Language Center, Israel
Exegesis of a Passage Conducted in Biblical Hebrew (30 min)
Brooke Lester, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Panelist
Paul Overland, Ashland Theological Seminary, Panelist
Daniel Streett, Criswell College
Exegesis of a Passage Conducted in Koine Greek (30 min)
Lee Fields, Mid-Atlantic Christian University, Panelist
Anna Phillips, Grace Evangelical College & Seminary, Panelist
Discussion (30 min)
Posted in 2011, Applied Linguistics for Biblical Languages Group, Classical Literary Hebrew, Communicative Language Teaching, Greek, Hebrew, Immersion, Koine, Pedagogy, Reading, SBL, Syntax, Total Physical Response--TPR
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Applied Linguistics for Biblical Languages
11:45 AM to 12:45 PM
11/21/2011
Pacific E
Hebrew Lunch
Members interested in Hebrew pedagogy are invited to meet with each other in a friendly setting over a BYOL lunch (bring your own lunch). Discussion may focus on personal interests or professional interests and should be conducted in classical Hebrew. All levels and pronunciations are welcome.
Paul Overland, Ashland Theological Sem, Presiding
Applied Linguistics for Biblical Languages
11:45 AM to 12:45 PM
11/20/2011
Howard
Greek Lunch
Members interested in Greek pedagogy are invited to meet with each other in a friendly setting over a BYOL lunch (bring your own lunch). Discussion may focus on personal interests or professional interests and should be conducted in Koine Greek. All levels and pronunciations are welcome.
Daniel Streett, Criswell College, Presiding
The schedule for the Greek Pronunciation session is now available.
Saturday, 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM, 19 Nov 2011
S19-305
Applied Linguistics for Biblical
Languages
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
11/19/2011
Room 2002
Greek Phonology and Pronunciation
William Warren, New Orleans
Baptist Theological Seminary, Presiding
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Oliver Simkin, Københavns Universitet
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Daniel B. Wallace, Dallas
Theological Seminary
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Randall Buth, Biblical Language
Center, Israel
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Michael P. Theophilos, Australian
Catholic University
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Discussion (30 min)
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A brief report and feedback on the Greek Instructors Fluency Workshop is online at
“What Happened at the Greek Instructors Fluency Workshop in Fresno, Aug 2011″
Can 8 days make a difference? Participants think so, and I know that it brought me up a perceptable notch. I really look forward to such times of interaction. The Jerusalem Greek workshop is now on schedule for the immediate future 28 December 2011-6 January 2012 ( “Jesus in Jerusalem” — a Koine Greek Fluency Workshop), and plans are underway for another workshop next summer.
προκόπτομεν.
Posted in 2011, Applied Linguistics for Biblical Languages Group, Communicative Language Teaching, Greek, Immersion, Koine, Pedagogy, Reading, SBL, Syntax, Workshops
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The deadline for the early registration discount for the “Fluency Workshop” (see also a previous announcement on this blog here) for instructors of Koine Greek run by Fresno Pacific University and the Biblical Language Center is being extended: instead of March 1st, the new deadline is now April 1st, 2011.
The request to extend the deadline came from instructors who just found out about the workshop and needed more time to work out the details in order to fit it into their schedule. April 1, 2011 is also the deadline for giving priority to instructors of Koine Greek over other interested parties.
For more information and to register, see here.
At the annual meeting of SBL in San Francisco, November, 2011 there will be a session devoted to Greek Pronunciation and Greek Phonology. The Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics Section and the Applied Linguistics for Biblical Languages Group are jointly sponsoring this session.
At the ALBL (Applied Linguistics for Biblical Languages) Greek-oriented session in Atlanta 2010, a strong show of support requested that issues surrounding Greek pronunciation and pedagogy receive open discussion at the next annual meeting. The session is currently under planning and the following five slots are proposed for a two and one-half hour session:
1. A Greek phonologist will survey the state of the field for the period from Alexander the Great to the modern era. A person has been contacted for this and is pending final confirmation.
2. Michael Theophilos has accepted an invitation to present a case for using a Modern Greek pronunciation.
3. Randall Buth has accepted an invitation to present a case for using a Koine Greek pronunciation.
4. One person will present a case for an Erasmian/Restored Attic pronunication. Suggestions/volunteers for presentors are welcome. You may also contact Peter Burton or Randall Buth through the SBL website.
5. Open panel and audience discussion. At the conclusion of the four presentations, the panel members (very briefly) and the audience will be given opportunities to comment and ask questions.
During the presentations of the ‘Modern’, ‘Koine’, and ‘Erasmian’ pronunciation models, a very brief reading of a chosen text will illustrate the particular model.
We look forward to this discussion as helping all of us as we consider the use of spoken Greek in the classrooms.
