[B-Greek] Master Case Ending Chart (MCEC) or Old Fashion Way??
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 5 23:01:31 EDT 2009
Dr. Buth:
Let me rephrase my question for you, Dr. Buth. When you show your first year students the concept of case endings, what do you actually show them? In other words, in addition to speaking and hearing, do you ever SHOW your students what the case endings look like? If so, does it more so approximate the Mounce method (a letter(s) in columns and rows) or what I see in older grammars (words in columns and rows)?
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
--- On Sun, 7/5/09, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Master Case Ending Chart (MCEC) or Old Fashion Way??
> To: "B Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 2:35 PM
> In Mounce's BBG, he gives what
> appears to me to be a somewhat cryptic
> chart of case endings.
>
> Here is how I learned LOGOS many, many years ago:
>
> LOGOS --> OS
> LOGOU --> OU
> LOGWi --> Wi
> LOGON --> ON
>
> mitch egrapse
> > LOGOI --> OI
> > LOGWN --> WN
> > LOGOIS -> OIS
> > LOGOUS -> OUS
> >
> > Mounce suggests memorizing his MCEC; here's a portion
> of that chart:
> >
> > First/Second Declension
> > Masc Fem Neut
> > S - N
> > U S U
> > I I
> I
> > N N N
> . . .
> > Which way do you feel is the best way to memorize case
> endings,
> > with the whole word (LOGOS, LOGOU, LOGWi, LOGON)
> > or just with a letter or two (S, U, I, N)?
> >
> > I guess one should use whatever method works best
> personally,
> > but I am wondering if others find Mounce's chart a bit
> harder to
> > master than the old way of learning case endings
> by memorizing
> > the whole word (LOGOS, LOGOU... rather than S, U...).
> Dr. Conrad and Buth,
> > did/do you teach the old fashion way or
> something closer to the
> > [simple chart] Chart way?
> . . .
>
> Actually, the simple chart is the old-fashioned way. Take a
> look at
> Machen.
>
> This is a pedagogy question that goes beyond the two
> options listed,
> beyond the choices of 'old fashioned way' versus 'simple
> chart'.
>
> Language use in an understandable context is the best way
> to
> internalize pieces of a language. Charts of real words and
> extracted
> morphemes are always useful, but are not the medium of
> acquisition.
>
> Randall
>
>
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