Out of the mouth of babes and Englishmen: the invention of the vernacular grammar in Anglo-Saxon England

Fisher, Jay; Archibald, Elizabeth; Brockliss, William; Gnoza, Jonathan

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portabam, portabas, portabat: Revolutionising Rote-learning by Utilising Sound and Movement to Introduce the Imperfect and Perfect Tenses

Mortimer¹

2016

J. of Class. Teach.

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Latin teaching is stereotypically associated with rote-learning or as Mount (Amo, Amas, Amat … And All That, 2006, p. 13) summarises the experience: ‘learning dreary declensions and conjugations’. When I tell people that I am training to teach Latin, the most common response that I get in reply is something along the lines of ‘Oh, I did Latin in school…I wasn't very good at it… but I can still remember –bo, -bis, -bit…’ and they continue to conjugate in front of me. For many people their only memory of Latin is a joyless experience of grammar by rote, inspiring such rhymes as the one above. Although currently pedagogically unfashionable, there must be some value in rote-learning if people can still recite grammatical paradigms decades later. Inspired by this, I wanted to explore rote-learning in the modern classroom by utilising current research on methods of teaching Latin in the primary sector. Primary Latin teaching often includes sound and movement to engage learners, whilst retaining a heavy emphasis on grammar. I wanted to explore whether such techniques would work at secondary level.

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portabam, portabas, portabat: Revolutionising Rote-learning by Utilising Sound and Movement to Introduce the Imperfect and Perfect Tenses

Mortimer¹

2016

J. of Class. Teach.

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Grammar is the Key

Chapman

2020

The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching

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Ælfric, a tenth-century English monk, produced a grammar, glossary, and colloquy to help oblates learn Latin. His grammar, as the first Latin grammar written in English, reflects the emphases on both grammar and bilingual education from his own training. He adapted his grammar in several ways to help beginners learn to read Latin and prepare for advanced language study, such as using English instead of Latin as the medium of instruction, including full paradigms, organizing the discussion around declensions and conjugations, using familiar specimen terms, providing simple explanations, etymologizing the grammatical terminology, and using story-like examples. These features must have been appreciated, since Ælfric’s grammar became one of the most popular elementary grammars in eleventh-century England.

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Out of the mouth of babes and Englishmen: the invention of the vernacular grammar in Anglo-Saxon England

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portabam, portabas, portabat: Revolutionising Rote-learning by Utilising Sound and Movement to Introduce the Imperfect and Perfect Tenses

portabam, portabas, portabat: Revolutionising Rote-learning by Utilising Sound and Movement to Introduce the Imperfect and Perfect Tenses

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