Abstract
With the changes made in the new US Standards for Classical Language Learning, pedagogy needs to develop to better meet the updated standards for student learning. One of the major changes is that reading Latin is no longer the sole pursuit of a high school Latin class (Standards, 2017; Natoli, 2018). The new standards recognise that students learn in diverse ways and that students need to learn about and interact with the cultures they are studying.
Highlights
Much of the research for teaching Latin has focused on different reading strategies
When we focus solely on reading Latin, I have found that students become uninterested and do not feel as though they know Latin
Though students struggled writing with proper cases, they did a good job of using vocabulary to convey meaningful messages
Summary
Much of the research for teaching Latin has focused on different reading strategies. It has been noted that reading and writing are different skills and modes of communication, one being a comprehensive mode and the other an interpersonal mode, but both are language skills. Students are able to create connections to the target language when writing This is especially true if the students are creating composition of meaning and not just translating example sentences (GruberMiller, 2006). It is not so much that students learn better grammar or reading strategies that makes writing an important activity for students. Dugdale (2011) found that his students benefited from composition at an early level in terms of engagement Both found that students’ grammar and skills benefited from revising their work (Dugdale, 2011; Beneker, 2006). The updated standards for teaching Latin call for teachers to incorporate skills other than reading and translating in the classroom They call for activities that draw students into the background and context of the language beyond just reading Latin (Gruber-Miller, 2018). Higher levels of student interest in engagement leads to better understanding of reading through student participation
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