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a use of multilingualism in teaching ancient greek

Vasilis SimeonidisStavroula Folia

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Proposal for the use of multilingualism in teaching ancient Greek,

Studies in Greek linguistics 34, Auth, 2014Mελέτες για την ελληνική γλώσσα 34. Πρακτικά της 34ης Eτήσιας

Συνάντησης του Tομέα Γλωσσολογίας του Tμήματος Φιλολογίας του A.Π.Θ. σελ. 385-394

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1. Theoritical Framework

• Communication into the classroom

• The attitube at the language is also attitube at the sosiety

• Cooperation between teachers and students

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1. Theoritical Framework

• Greece: Advent of fereigners

• Pedagogy of Multiliteracies

• Language awareness

• Identities

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2. Description of activity

• Ancient Greek, second grade of upper high school, Lysias, Pro Mantitheo

• Class of 22 students

• Duration: 2 weeks, December 2012• Incorporated into the time schedule

(3 hours of teaching)

http://ebooks.edu.gr/modules/ebook/show.php/DSGL-B124/637/4095,18717/

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2. Description of activity

• 15 translations from 14 students• In 9 languages and 2 geographical varieties/

dialect(albanian, serbian, rusian, turkish, english, french, german, italian,

spanish, pontiac, variety of thrace)

• 6 students didn’t transate

(2 of them were alabanians)

• Questionnaires, notice, interviews

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4. Conclusions

Students’ Identities (Linguistic-cultural)

School ingnotes, underestimates, conceals

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4. Conclusions

Ancient Greek facing other languages

Positive emrirical indiratios

Definition of the relationship between students and language

and especially the relationship with the Ancient Greek

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Language awareness

Thank you!