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by David M. Miller
June 7th, 2013, 3:59 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Best Practices for Second Year Greek
Replies: 11
Views: 5776

Best Practices for Second Year Greek

Most discussions of pedagogy on this list deal with approaches to teaching introductory Greek. I am interested in suggestions about best practices for the second year. To get things started, I invite your feedback on the syllabus I used the last time I taught our 3rd semester Greek Syntax course fou...
by David M. Miller
May 20th, 2013, 9:40 am
Forum: Vocabulary
Topic: Vocabulary Cards Incorporating Pictures
Replies: 5
Views: 2729

Re: Vocabulary Cards Incorporating Pictures

Devenios,

Instead of, or in addition to, PowerPoint, may I recommend Anki (http://ankisrs.net/)? It is a powerful flashcard program that supports pictures and audio within flashcards.
by David M. Miller
April 2nd, 2013, 3:39 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Semantic differences between Aorist/Future Middle & Passive?
Replies: 13
Views: 11864

Re: Semantic differences between Aorist/Future Middle & Pass

Thanks for your reply, Mike. Let me try to clarify. My question is not primarily concerned with deponency, but with the possibility of meaningful morphological distinctions within the larger subject-focused category. My standard explanation of the Aorist and Future Middle and Passive forms--followin...
by David M. Miller
April 2nd, 2013, 11:55 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Semantic differences between Aorist/Future Middle & Passive?
Replies: 13
Views: 11864

Semantic differences between Aorist/Future Middle & Passive?

I was explaining my understanding of Carl Conrad's model of Greek voice* to a friend, who responded with some counter-examples that appear to fit the traditional model better. (*E.g., http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/docs//AGNT_Newsletter_Q1_2011_002.pdf ; see also Michael Palmer's discussion h...
by David M. Miller
September 2nd, 2012, 5:28 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Vocabulary / Week
Replies: 25
Views: 11073

Best Practices in Vocabulary Acquisition

I should note that the article Louis introduced here ( http://ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1442&start=10&sid=a90d38f5db7b0db1d76263d9189f227d&sid=a90d38f5db7b0db1d76263d9189f227d#p7516 ) supports the traditional method of requiring intermediate students to memorize v...
by David M. Miller
August 25th, 2012, 11:40 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Vocabulary / Week
Replies: 25
Views: 11073

Re: Vocabulary / Week

Thanks for the helpful suggestions, everyone. Louis, I’ll look forward to the statistics from Graben. A new idea for me coming out of this conversation is to ditch vocab frequency lists in 2nd year classes, and only require students to learn the vocabulary that we actually encounter in readings. To ...
by David M. Miller
August 22nd, 2012, 12:34 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Vocabulary / Week
Replies: 25
Views: 11073

Vocabulary / Week

Can anyone point me to suggestions regarding an optimal # of new vocab words that should be introduced each week in a typical 3 hour / week introductory Greek course? How many words should be introduced in the first year of study? Factors to consider include (1) the amount of vocab one needs to acqu...
by David M. Miller
January 24th, 2012, 5:28 pm
Forum: Resources
Topic: Self-paced CD/DVD course?
Replies: 4
Views: 4917

Re: Self-paced CD/DVD course?

RandallButh wrote:'Self-paced CD course' is almost a description of
Living Koine Greek, 3parts, with everything recorded in mp3.
I would be interested in testimonials from people who have (a) used Living Koine Greek for self-study or (b) used Living Koine Greek as the main textbook for a taught course.
by David M. Miller
June 26th, 2011, 10:01 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: bibliography management software
Replies: 5
Views: 4108

Re: bibliography management software

I used Library Master for several years, switched to EndNote for its Unicode support, and then to Zotero because it is both free and, in most respects, a superior program.

The freestanding alpha program works fine.
by David M. Miller
June 12th, 2011, 10:47 pm
Forum: Pronunciation
Topic: Restored Koine in nontechnical terms
Replies: 12
Views: 17929

Re: Restored Koine in nontechnical terms

I'll let Randall comment on the details of your chart. (At first glance, the main difference seems to be your rendering of υ and οι as 'oo' in 'book' instead of German ü or 'ew' in 'mew'.) For the sake of comparison, I am uploading a handout I put together a few years ago that attempts to make "...

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