Integrating Methods from Foreign Language Teaching into Teaching Ancient Greek and Latin in an Italian Liceo Classico

Federico Aurora; Ilaria Bergomi; Claudia Gafforini; Oriana Mignacca; Anna Ruggeri; Elena Rossi Linguanti; Marianna Turelli; Andrea Taddei

doi:10.55393/babylonia.v2i.552

Authors

Federico Aurora University of Oslo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5048-2322
Ilaria Bergomi Liceo Classico Statale Arnaldo
Claudia Gafforini
Oriana Mignacca Liceo Classico Statale Arnaldo
Anna Ruggeri Liceo Classico Arnaldo
Elena Rossi Linguanti University of Pisa
Marianna Turelli Liceo Classico Statale Arnaldo
Andrea Taddei University of Pisa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55393/babylonia.v2i.552

Keywords:

Ancient Greek, Latin, Extensive Reading, Communicative Approaches, High School

Abstract

This paper presents a project on introducing into the teaching of Ancient Greek and Latin, ideas, methods and techniques which are largely used in foreign language teaching and are based on research in the fields of Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy. The project is a collaboration between scholars of Ancient Greek and Latin language pedagogy (University of Pisa, University of Oslo) and high school teachers and consists of two subprojects implemented at the Liceo Classico Arnaldo (Brescia, Italy). The first subproject is a series of extracurricular Latin reading labs, aiming at introducing and promoting extensive reading practice. The second subproject is an experimental class where students are taught Ancient Greek and Latin through a communicative approach.

Author Biographies

Ilaria Bergomi, Liceo Classico Statale Arnaldo

Ilaria Bergomi holds a master’s degree in Classics and teaches History, Italian, Latin and Ancient Greek at the Liceo Classico Arnaldo (Brescia, Italy). She teaches Ancient Greek with a communicative approach in an experimental class.

Claudia Gafforini

Claudia Gafforini holds a master’s degree in Classics (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) and a PhD in Philology and History of the Ancient world (University of Milan). She teaches Latin and Ancient Greek at the Liceo Classico “Arnaldo” (Brescia, Italy), where she is also part of the Latin reading lab team.

Oriana Mignacca, Liceo Classico Statale Arnaldo

Oriana Mignacca holds a PhD in Latin Literature from the University of Trento. She teaches Latin, Italian and History at the Liceo Classico Arnaldo (Brescia, Italy). She uses a communicative approach to teaching Latin in an experimental class.

Anna Ruggeri, Liceo Classico Arnaldo

Anna Ruggeri holds a master’s degree in Classics (2010 at University Ca’ Foscari - Venice) and from 2019 she teaches History, Italian and Latin at the Liceo classico Arnaldo (Brescia, Italy) where she is also part of the Latin reading lab team.

Elena Rossi Linguanti, University of Pisa

Elena Rossi Linguanti, Associate Professor in the field of Classical Philology at the University of Pisa, teaches courses on Latin Teaching Methodology, History of Classical Culture and Tradition, and Comparative History of Classical Literatures. Her research focuses on classical language teaching, ancient theater, and the legacy of antiquity.

Marianna Turelli, Liceo Classico Statale Arnaldo

Marianna Turelli holds a master’s degree in Classics (2006 at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia) and from 2018 teaches History, Italian, Latin and Ancient Greek at the Liceo classico Arnaldo (Brescia, Italy), where she is also part of the Latin reading lab team.

Andrea Taddei, University of Pisa

Andrea Taddei is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the Universiy of Pisa, where he also teaches Cultural Anthropology of the Ancient World and Ancient Greek DIdactics, and he is director of the Classics teacher training program. His last book (2020) is Heortè. Azioni sacre sulla scena tragica euripidea.