Open Access Journal: Teaching Classical Languages (TCL)

[First posted in AWOL 22 April 2011. Updated 13 February 2018]

Teaching Classical Languages (TCL)
ISSN 2160-2220

Teaching Classical Languages (ISSN 2160-2220) is the only peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to the teaching and learning of Latin and ancient Greek. It addresses the interests of all Latin and Greek teachers, graduate students, coordinators, and administrators. Teaching Classical Languages welcomes articles offering innovative practice and methods, advocating new theoretical approaches, or reporting on empirical research in teaching and learning Latin and Greek. As an electronic journal, Teaching Classical Languages has a unique global outreach. It offers authors and readers a multimedia format that more fully illustrates the topics discussed, and provides hypermedia links to related information and websites. Articles not only contribute to successful Latin and Greek pedagogy, but draw on relevant literature in language education, applied linguistics, and second language acquisition for an ongoing dialogue with modern language educators.

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Fall 2009
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Social Networking in Latin Class: A How-To Guide
"That Ain't Workin'; That's the Way You Do It": Teaching Greek through Popular Music
Greek Vocabulary in Popular Textbooks
Spring 2010
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From Literal to Literary: A Translation Project for Latin Poetry Classes
Building Ties between College and High School Latin Programs
Perspectives on the New Standards for Latin Teacher Preparation
Fall 2010
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Exercises for Developing Prediction Skills in Reading Latin Sentences
Form-Focused Teaching for the Intermediate Latin Teacher
The 2010 College Greek Exam
Spring 2011
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Classroom as Text: What Genres Do We Teach In?
Third Language Acquisition: Spanish-Speaking Students in the Latin Classroom
Aliquid Novi: The New Series of Bolchazy-Carducci Latin Readers
Fall 2011
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Lingua Latina, Lingua Mea: Creative Composition in Beginning Latin
Teaching Greek Verbs: A Manifesto
The 2011 College Greek Exam: Report and Analysis
Innovation in Recent Intermediate Greek Textbooks?
Fall 2012
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Using Manuscripts in the Latin Classroom
Latin in the Homeschooling Community
Reading the Aeneid with intermediate Latin students: the new Focus commentaries (Books 1-4 and 6) and Cambridge Reading Virgil (Books I and II)
Spring 2013
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Song in the Greek Classroom
Computer-Assisted Learning in Second-Year Latin
The Implications of SLA Research for Latin Pedagogy: Modernizing Latin Instruction and Securing its Place in Curricula
Latin and Power: Warnings and Opportunities from the Long History of the Language
Engaging Multiple Literacies through Remix Practices: Vergil Recomposed
Fall 2013
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Reimagining Latin Class: Using the Reacting to the Past Pedagogy in the Intermediate Latin Course
Team-Based Learning to Promote the Study of Greek
Blended Learning in an Advanced Course on Greek Tragedy
De Lingua Latina Discenda
Spring 2014
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Composition, Competition, and Community: A Preliminary Study of the Use of Latin Composition in a Cooperative Learning Environment
Accenting Ancient Greek Finite Verbs: Four Simple Rules, with Applications for Nouns and Adjectives
“Greeking Out”: Creating Digital Tutorials and Support Materials for Beginners
Latin Commentaries on the Web
Spring 2015
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Ovid and his Ars: Preparing a Commentary for the Online Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women
Three Categories of Humor in Latin Pedagogy
Why Oral Latin?
Cur discipuli linguae Latinae Latine loquantur
A Podcasting Approach to Greek and Latin Orality
The Biduum Experience: Speaking Latin to Learn
Making Sense of Comprehensible Input in the Latin Classroom
Fall 2015
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Close Readings in a Latin Dictionary
Enhancing Latin and Greek Classes through a Convivium
Oil for the Wheels in Teaching Caesar: Yesterday and Today
Companions of Aeneas: Gamifying Intermediate Latin
The Tirones Project: Mentoring New Teachers
Mentoring and the Latin Teaching Methods Course
Mentoring from the Middle
My Own Private Ithaca: Mens, Mentor and My Stumble into the Classics
The California Mentoring Project
Spring 2016
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Quomodo Dicitur? The Importance of Memory in Language Learning
Latin at the Middle School Level: Who Are Our Students? How Do We Reach Them?
Veni, Vidi, Vicipaedia: Using the Latin Wikipedia in an Advanced Latin Classroom
Volume 8 Issue 1
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Competency and Collaboration: An Approach to the Second-Semester Latin Course
Review Article: Alexandros to Hellenikon Paidion
An Old Teaching Dog Tries Some New Tricks: Changing a Traditional Latin Classroom
Volume 8 Issue 2
Squaring the Circle and Saving the Phenomena: Reading Science in the Greek Language Classroom
Beginner Latin Novels, a General Overview