Longman Language Activator 39
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And who are we -- and what do we know about improving thinking skills, especially reasoning skills? Current approaches to ''learning Greek'' centre around the reservoir model: we are offered lists of definitions, a box full of sample text, a manipulable vocabulary list, an atlas and a grammar. We are then supposed to work out the connection, in a non-laboratory medium, between what we have been told and our own thinking. I can't see that this is a satisfactory way of teaching the language. If you want it to be a genuinely ''learning by doing'' activity, it should happen in a ''sand's-eason'' kind of way in which the student constructs their own knowledge and learning. I'll come to this in a moment, but first, I'd like to show you a piece of what I call learning by doing.
Since I'm not a teacher, one day I decided to try things out. I downloaded some programs (at that time, materials were often packaged in a ''compiled'' form) and one was ''Wordwonders.'' I read about it on the web, watched some videos and downloaded a sample of material, including a few texts. I set up a simple Word document into which I'd put the texts and some questions. I sent the type-written 'sample' to my son, Nick, who was at school (he'd study ancient Greek), and told him to work through it and complete it as a 'learning activity' for the next few days. I didn't presume that he would necessarily learn anything (particularly from this one source) by this exercise. His task was simply to attempt to work through the texts. A word here and there (such as ''Maccaroni'' or ''πέπυθω'') might help to guide his reading, but I intended to treat this as a minimal ''communication.'' To me, that means that if students did not come out with a working knowledge of a term or a part of the grammar, they would have failed. After 2 days, I called Nick and found out how he'd got on. d2c66b5586