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by Stephen Hughes
July 10th, 2013, 7:17 am
Forum: Resources
Topic: A Model for a New Koine Syntax?
Replies: 41
Views: 20238

Re: Best Intermediate Greek Syntax

How are you measuring? It is a difficult thing to measure, yes. My point is that a grammar of the language would be more difficult to formulate than a set of exegetical crib-notes (which is doubtless also a difficult task). I suppose I was thinking that someone who has an adequate command of the la...
by Stephen Hughes
July 9th, 2013, 5:01 am
Forum: Resources
Topic: A Model for a New Koine Syntax?
Replies: 41
Views: 20238

Re: Best Intermediate Greek Syntax

I wonder if the Index structure of Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language By David Holton, Peter A. Mackridge, Irene Philippaki-Warburton (2nd edition, 2012) could be a model or assist in the development of a new Koine syntax model. Grammars of modern languages sort of assume that pe...
by Stephen Hughes
June 26th, 2013, 7:11 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Why not start with modern Greek?
Replies: 93
Views: 3612598

Re: Why not start with modern Greek?

Let me explain more fully, my, "Yes (I can read read at that speed/ with fluency), and (why is that remarkable)?" comment. I understand that linguists come up with ideas from time to time with ideas based on their own experience or that experience of other, or by analogously applying what ...
by Stephen Hughes
June 24th, 2013, 1:46 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Why not start with modern Greek?
Replies: 93
Views: 3612598

Re: Why not start with modern Greek?

RandallButh wrote:fluent reading at 100-200 wpm ... without rereading
Yes, and?
by Stephen Hughes
June 24th, 2013, 9:04 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Why not start with modern Greek?
Replies: 93
Views: 3612598

Re: Why not start with modern Greek?

none of us are fluently reading and won't be fluently reading until we are fluently speaking That is a strange claim to make. I understand that a "speaker" of a language is someone who must think ahead to the end of a sentence before saying it, and being able to think ahead to the end of ...
by Stephen Hughes
June 24th, 2013, 6:00 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Why not start with modern Greek?
Replies: 93
Views: 3612598

Re: Why not start with modern Greek?

I realise that its bordering on the flippant, but I think that we start with New Testament Greek, (rather than any other related language) because we want to read the NT, or because it is required course to get through a theological degree. Thinking along the lines of Pharr's (1925) (starting at an ...
by Stephen Hughes
June 22nd, 2013, 7:00 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Teaching Greek to Kids
Replies: 21
Views: 8158

Re: Teaching Greek to Kids

Seeing the structures themselves and the order of acquision is what is important. That doesn't seem to be all together in one article (or within one school of thought). When my linguistic-experiments were younger, they were sent to a Saturday community school to learn a community language (for othe...
by Stephen Hughes
June 22nd, 2013, 1:24 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Teaching Greek to Kids
Replies: 21
Views: 8158

Re: Teaching Greek to Kids

Children need real people for language learning. I came across this some time ago on page 22-23 (Part of Chapter 1 – Learning languages in early childhood) of Lightbrown and Spada, How Languages are Learnt (Oxford, Third Edition, 2009) " The importance of interaction The role of interaction be...
by Stephen Hughes
June 18th, 2013, 7:01 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Teaching Greek to Kids
Replies: 21
Views: 8158

Re: Teaching Greek to Kids

Secondly, yes, one may expect certain orders of acquisition though I am not sure what they would be. Why would a child first produce "final nu at the root infinitive stage of acquisition", whatever exactly that would be? Wouldn't θέλω be expected over (ἐ)θελεῖν or (ἐ)θελῆσαι? Of course, θ...
by Stephen Hughes
June 18th, 2013, 4:03 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Teaching Greek to Kids
Replies: 21
Views: 8158

Re: Teaching Greek to Kids

there was virtually no age limit, even pre-schoolers for much of the material. I realise this is an old thread, but it is an interesting one. I hope that there could be empirical evidence for some basic questions for childhood language acquistion: Have any any early bilinguals resulted from sharing...

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