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List of contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Latin Language Teaching and Learning
Chapter 2: Listening
Chapter 3: Reading
Chapter 4: Speaking
Chapter 5: Writing
Chapter 6: Access, Diversity and Inclusion
Chapter 7: The Future – is Digital?
Appendix 1: Abbreviations
Appendix 2: Resources
Appendix 3: Comparison of UK and US School Systems
Index
About the author
Steven Hunt is Associate Teaching Professor in Classics Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is Subject Lead for the PGCE in Latin and Classics and is editor of the Journal of Classics Teaching. He works extensively with the charity Classics for All to develop Classics in state schools in the UK. He is author of Starting to Teach Latin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) and Teaching Latin: Contexts, Theories and Practices (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). He is co-editor of Communicative Approaches to Teaching Classical Languages (2021), Teaching Classics with Technology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and Forward with Classics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
Summary
Building on and updating some of the issues addressed in Starting to Teach Latin, Steven Hunt provides a guide for novice and more experienced teachers of Latin in schools and colleges, who work with adapted and original Latin prose texts from beginners’ to advanced levels. It draws extensively on up-to-date theories of second language development and on multiple examples of the practices of real teachers and students. Hunt starts with a detailed look at deductive, inductive and active teaching methods, which support teachers in making the best choices for their students’ needs and for their own personal preferences, but goes on to organise the book around the principles of listening, reading, speaking and writing Latin. It is designed to be informative, experimental and occasionally provocative. The book closes with two chapters of particular contemporary interest: ‘Access, Diversity and Inclusion’ investigates how the subject community is meeting the challenge of teaching Latin more equitably in today’s schools; and ‘The Future’ offers some thoughts on lessons that have been learnt from the experiences of online teaching practices during the Covid-19 lockdowns.
Practical examples, extensive references and a companion website at www.stevenhuntclassics.com are included. Teachers of Latin will find this book an invaluable tool inside and outside of the classroom.
Foreword
The sequel to Starting to Teach Latin with an emphasis on the application of modern and traditional approaches to learning classical languages in the school classroom.
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This is the go-to book for an up-to-date picture of the classics educational landscape and for good advice on how to make it better. Steven Hunt has been in the forefront of developments, and the richness of his personal experience and well-informed wisdom is clear on every page.
