{"title":"Designing Vocabulous: a Case Study in Classics, EdTech and English Literacy","authors":"Lucy Huelin","doi":"10.1017/s2058631023000661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s2058631023000661","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines the website Vocabulous, an innovative resource that combines Classics and English literacy. The aim of Vocabulous is to improve students' English vocabulary knowledge and skills using Latin and Greek root patterns. For example, the root ‘scrip’ meaning ‘write’ can help students understand that ‘inscription’, ‘manuscript’ and ‘transcription’ are all related to writing. Students use these roots to work out the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary, so that by the end of the programme, they have the skills they need to decipher new words on their own. As Alex Quigley notes, ‘over 90% of the vocabulary of academic texts in school has Latin and Greek origins and therefore teaching etymology has positive implications for learning and cracking the academic code of school’ (Quigley, 2018: 71). This article discusses the pedagogy behind the site, the selection of Latin and Greek roots, the design of the questions (based on vocabulary acquisition research) and the use of animated videos to engage students. The article concludes by outlining the current Vocabulous trial with 10–13-year-olds in 50 schools across the UK, combining teacher testimonies with ideas for practical application in the classroom1. Vocabulous is funded by The SHINE Trust and is part of a research trial led by Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson and Christ Church, Oxford. It will be available for school subscriptions from September 2023.","PeriodicalId":53809,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classics Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73294647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Latin and Greek in English Primary Schools – seedlings of a classical education","authors":"S. Hunt","doi":"10.1017/s2058631023000673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s2058631023000673","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article describes some of the main features of classical languages and history learning at the primary school level in England at the current time. It briefly examines the context and education policy background and government and teachers' beliefs in the value and status of classical subjects, especially the Latin language as an aid to learning other languages and as a support for developing and improving students' English literacy. There is some overlap with the literature review co-authored by Holmes-Henderson and Kelly for the British government (Holmes-Henderson and Kelly, 2022) and a recent piece by myself about provision of teaching and resources in the Bulletin of the Council of University Classics Departments (Hunt, 2022a). I hope to develop further some of these ideas and draw out some discussions about resources, pedagogy and learning aims for possible future directions of classical languages learning at the primary level.","PeriodicalId":53809,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classics Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80598912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Greek Reader. A Companion to A Primer of Biblical Greek (M.) Jeong Pp. xii + 180. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2022. Paper, US$19. ISBN: 978-0-8028-7991-2.","authors":"Cressida Ryan","doi":"10.1017/s2058631023000569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s2058631023000569","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53809,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classics Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83285443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eugenia Manolidou, C. Rico, Jenny Teichmann, Juan Coderch, Marco Romani Mistretta, S. Hunt
{"title":"Insights on Classics in Praxis at the Delphi Economic Forum","authors":"Eugenia Manolidou, C. Rico, Jenny Teichmann, Juan Coderch, Marco Romani Mistretta, S. Hunt","doi":"10.1017/s2058631023000685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s2058631023000685","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53809,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classics Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82357166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Art of Resilience: The Lessons of Aeneas (A.) Marcolongo (translated from the Italian by Will Schutt) Pp. 243, map. London: Europa Editions, 2022 (first published 2020 by Gius. Laterza & Figli). Paper, £10.99. ISBN: 978-1-78770-387-2.","authors":"Brian Zawiski","doi":"10.1017/s2058631023000478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s2058631023000478","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53809,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classics Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89101306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great (M.) Waters Pp, xvi + 255, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Cased, £21.99, US$27.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-092717-2.","authors":"B. Knowlton","doi":"10.1017/s2058631023000545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s2058631023000545","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53809,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classics Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73828527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"As clear as Herculaneum mud: a plea for clarity","authors":"J. Moran","doi":"10.1017/s2058631023000703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s2058631023000703","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article is by way of a request to experts who wish to make their expertise accessible to the non-expert. Non omnia possumus omnes, as Virgil said. In this case the deficiency is the lack of familiarity with papyrology and its conventions, in particular the papyri discovered in the library of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. The article shows how expertise can hinder rather than help the understanding of information needed for the processing of crucial data by the non-expert.","PeriodicalId":53809,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classics Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78136298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fasces. A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol (T.C.) Brennan Pp. xii + 291, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Cased, £22.99, US$34.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-764488-1.","authors":"Brian Zawiski","doi":"10.1017/s205863102300048x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s205863102300048x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53809,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classics Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89471713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings (T.) Williams Pp. 413, map. London: William Collins, 2022. Cased, £25.00. ISBN: 978-008171964","authors":"Timothy Adelani","doi":"10.1017/s2058631023000508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s2058631023000508","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53809,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classics Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85863674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}