How can the reworking of Cicero's Pro Cluentio create an appreciation for his literature? Action research exploring methods to support first year A Level students encountering original Latin
From my experience as a student of Latin, I have always perceived the transition from studying GCSE (sat at ages 14–16) to A Level Latin (sat at ages 17–18) as challenging. As a student, I used the inductive Cambridge Latin Course textbooks, which, as a reading comprehension course, fostered an intu...
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Cambridge University Press
2024-10-01
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| Series: | The Journal of Classics Teaching |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058631024000382/type/journal_article |
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| Summary: | From my experience as a student of Latin, I have always perceived the transition from studying GCSE (sat at ages 14–16) to A Level Latin (sat at ages 17–18) as challenging. As a student, I used the inductive Cambridge Latin Course textbooks, which, as a reading comprehension course, fostered an intuitive sense of grammar. This was appropriate preparation for the GCSE exam. For the A Level exam however, which features greater quantities of difficult original literature and requires explicitly identifying grammatical forms, I had to undertake a lot of independent study, in addition to bridging work. Original Latin was a definite challenge for my peers and me: unusual vocabulary, creative generic form and lapses in grammatical convention were exciting but unfamiliar. With this in mind, I sought to investigate the experience of current Year 12 students. |
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| ISSN: | 2058-6310 |