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Teaching latin at São Paulo state public universities and the method Reading Latin: a case study

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Author(s):
Charlene Martins Miotti
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Examining board members:
Marcos Aurélio Pereira; Paulo Sérgio de Vasconcellos; Antonio da Silveira Mendonça
Advisor: Marcos Aurélio Pereira
Abstract

The look at the current Latin language teaching panorama at some Brazilian universities, according to several authors, allows one to ascertain that the most part of the problems within this panorama is due to, among other factors, a methodology stemming from uncertain conceptions regarding the teaching goals of a language such as Latin. Having as a starting point the analysis of a teaching method of this language, which is considered one of the most complete ones nowadays, including what is taken into account concerning the classical culture (Reading Latin, conceived two decades ago by Peter Jones [University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K.] and Keith Sidwell [St. Patrick¿s College, Ireland] and applied in Universities like Paraná Federal [UFPR] and the State University of Campinas [UNICAMP]), we seek to investigate the reasons and the methodology that have led students, in special those from São Paulo state public universities, to study and learn Latin (AU)