[B-Greek] Class Frequency
Ken Penner
ken.penner at acadiau.ca
Mon Apr 16 09:03:56 EDT 2007
Dear B-Greekers,
How many times a week should an Introductory New Testament Greek class meet?
My own sense (based on some research I did 12 years ago) is that meeting three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) for 50 minutes is preferable to meeting twice a week for 75 minutes, or once a week for 150 minutes, so that students have a chance to assimilate what they have learned before moving on. Therefore this is what I recommended to our academic dean. Today that recommendation was questioned, so I thought I'd seek the experience of others on this question. The textbook used in this case will probably be Mounce's. (I don't want to get into the question of inductive/immersion methods; I can't change that for next year.) Might it take too long to settle the class in a 50-minute session, or are there other drawbacks I might not have considered?
Ken
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