Building on and updating some of the issues addressed in Starting to
Teach Latin, Steven Hunt provides a guide for novice and more
experienced teachers of Latin in schools and colleges, who work with
adapted and original Latin prose texts from beginners' to advanced
levels. It draws extensively on up-to-date theories of second language
development and on multiple examples of the practices of real teachers
and students. Hunt starts with a detailed look at deductive, inductive
and active teaching methods, which support teachers in making the best
choices for their students' needs and for their own personal
preferences, but goes on to organise the book around the principles of
listening, reading, speaking and writing Latin. It is designed to be
informative, experimental and occasionally provocative. The book closes
with two chapters of particular contemporary interest: 'Access,
Diversity and Inclusion' investigates how the subject community is
meeting the challenge of teaching Latin more equitably in today's
schools; and 'The Future' offers some thoughts on lessons that have been
learnt from the experiences of online teaching practices during the
Covid-19 lockdowns.
Practical examples, extensive references and a companion website at
www.stevenhuntclassics.com are included. Teachers of Latin will find
this book an invaluable tool inside and outside of the classroom.
