This article focuses on the ever-increasing stress on multilingual education (MLE) in policy documents, especially its pairing with mother tongues in education (MTE). This focus brings into relief the relationship between MTE, the preservation of linguistic diversity and social democracy. We argue that the outcome of this relationship crucially…

The article explores the ways in which concerns of history, in terms of content, concepts and methodology, find space or do not find space within textbooks used for teaching languages. These may be more important as sites of "knowledge" than social science books, because the latter are often regarded as insignificant within the formal…

This dissertation examines the role of metaphorical language in early Buddhist literature through the lens of two previously unpublished Gandhari sutras on a manuscript from the Robert Senior Collection. At the microscopic level, I offer an edition, translation, and textual analysis of a Buddhist manuscript containing two Sa?yuktagama-type sutras…

The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of integrating a cloud-based cross-device interactive response system (CCIRS) on enhancing students' classical Chinese learning. The system is a cloud-based IRS system which provides instructors and learners with an environment in which to achieve immediate interactive learning and…

This article traces the exceptional career of Gottlieb Leitner, one of the most significant European educators in north India in the second half of the nineteenth century. Leitner's career is important because he was responsible for changing government attitudes about teaching in the local languages and he was pivotal in the foundation of the…

In the supervisory relationship, the use of expressive arts activities has proven to be beneficial to students. Using art materials, students often discover new ways of understanding complex cases and grow personally. Through the art activities, unconscious material is made conscious and then that material is open to processing with the…

Examines a variety of grammatical and linguistic problems encountered in the teaching of classical languages and urges a more rationalistic approach to their solution. Concluding portion of the article. (RL)

An example of semoitics illustrating the Mycenaean and Minoan language system is used to illustrate innovative teaching methods. (RL)

Paper presented at the Seventh Annual Conference of the Classical Association of the Empire State, meeting with the Catholic Classical Association of Greater New York and the New York Classical Club, held November 1970 in New York, New York. (DS)

Report of a pilot program in high school Latin given in 1969-70 for the Washington State Foreign Language Program under a grant from the Ford Foundation. (DS)

Suggests ways to teach Greek literature. (DS)

The contributions to classics teaching of James Barclay of Dalkeith, an eighteenth century Scottish educator, are presented. In addition, a general attempt is made to show him within the general development of classics teaching in Scotland at that time. (SW)

Part one of a continuing series. Suggests that teachers could encourage further study of Latin if they were willing to be flexible in arranging class schedules. (DS)