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- Title
Can Communicative Methods Enhance Ancient Language Acquisition?
- Authors
Overland, Paul
- Abstract
For several years the field of Second Language Acquisition has benefited from methods associated with communicative language learning. However, these benefits have largely been overlooked when teaching ancient languages, likely because the objective for ancient languages is literacy, not oral fluency. This article outlines an experiment that capitalized on communicative language methods to accelerate literacy for beginning students of Biblical Hebrew. (Digital images associated with this essay may be found at: 〈 〉
- Subjects
HEBREW language education; SECOND language acquisition; FOREIGN language education; EXPERIMENTAL methods in education; COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS
- Publication
Teaching Theology & Religion, 2004, Vol 7, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
1368-4868
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9647.2004.00191.x