Johanna wrote: > >>Have you looked for any literature on 2nd-language teaching for children? > >> I know that there is a lot of work in this area, and perhaps you are > >> familiar with it already. I imagine materials that work well for other > >> languages that are commonly taught to young children, such as English and > >> Spanish, could be adapted to teach Latin. Steve replied: > I don't know this literature. Can you give titles and authors? Can you give > me some examples of materials that you feel would be appropriate here? > Activities? Methods? Three books from Addison-Wesley on 2nd-language teaching for children are a bit 'old' but give you an idea that there must be much more out there: _Languages and Children--Making the Match: Foreign Language Instruction in the Elementary School_ by Curtain and Pesola (1988) _Integrating English: Developing English Language and Literacy in the Multi-Lingual Classroom_ (I think you could adapt activities suggested in this book for Latin or other foreign languages) by D. Scott Enright and Mary Lou McCloskey (who have published a lot on child 2nd language learning) (1988) and _Conversations of Miguel and Maria: How Children Learn a Second Language_ by Linda Ventrigula (1982). From one of those nasty college-professor-linguists who doesn't know much about teaching languages to children (everything I know my elementary-teacher wife taught me). Mike Medley ********************************************************************** R. Michael Medley VPH 211 Ph: (712) 737-7047 Assistant Professor Northwestern College Department of English Orange City, IA 51041 **********************************************************************