[B-Greek] Casualties of the Beginning Greek class

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 07:57:19 EST 2010


>They had no business subjecting you to all that rote; we do things a lot differently here.
> Relax, sit back, breathe deeply, and tell us how you feel."

Actually, Second Language Acquisition in modern languages might expect
this last
sentence to be true. Except of course, that the student would be
required to tell them
in Greek.
EY EXEIS?  KALWS EXW.
KAI O PLHSION SOY? KAKWS EXEI? [?>!>?]
OY DOKEI MOI, MEIDIA.
XAIRW.
(pros ton plhsion) SY MEIDIAS, EY EXEIS?
 . . .

Over the last 13 years with Hebrew we have been tweaking, innovating,
and changing.
Greek, too, but we have not run as many classes, and have learned from Hebrew.
One of the criteria that we look to avoid is 'hyper-stress/crying', and we have
been fairly successful over the last 7-8 years. It's good to see
smiling faces in
class. Of course, the students in these ulpans are not typical, they
have usually paid
for a substantial air ticket, which sparks one's perserverence and dedication.

And some fresh news: there is a new Unit for SBL starting this Nov 2010:
"Applied Linguistics for the Biblical Languages Group".
Those of you who are members in SBL are welcomed to participate, and
to take any
side of a discussion related to Greek pedagogy. (If not yet on the SBL
website under
"Call for Papers", you may write me directly.

ERRWSQE
IWANHS


-- 
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
randallbuth at gmail.com
Biblical Language Center
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