Integrating Methods from Foreign Language Teaching into Teaching Ancient Greek and Latin in an Italian Liceo Classico

This paper presents a project on introducing into the teaching of Ancient Greek and Latin, ideas, methods and techniques which are largely used in foreign language teaching and are based on research in the fields of Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy. The project is a collaboration between scholars of Ancient Greek and Latin language pedagogy (University of Pisa, University of Oslo) and high school teachers and consists of two subprojects implemented at the Liceo Classico Arnaldo (Brescia, Italy). The first subproject is a series of extracurricular Latin reading labs, aiming at introducing and promoting extensive reading practice. The second subproject is an experimental class where students are taught Ancient Greek and Latin through a communicative approach.