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Communicative Language Tools
Below you will find notes from workshops I have given on the use of communicative language approaches in the Latin classroom.  All will open as Word documents.  They are here for you to download and use.  I simply ask that you not republish them without asking permission.
Theory
Practice
  1. Creating the Safety Net
  2. Question Word Posters
  3. Daily Classroom Routine Words
  4. TPR for the First Ten Days
  5. Approaching Comprehensible Input
  6. Krashen: Why Skillbuilding Doesn't Work
  7. Here's the Challenge for Latin: the Compelling Input Hypothesis
Latin Teachers are Not Normal--Latin is Not Different
This document is a composite of talks that I have given in several places pulling together the theory and the practice of communicative approaches in the Latin classroom.

Links to Practical Information

Here are some teachers' websites.  They have great stuff on them.  Have a look.

Rachel Ash

Miriam Patrick

Keith Toda

Patrick Yaggy

Bag of Tricks--compiled by Ashley Newman

Beginning to Speak Latin--John Byron Kuhner, from the SALVI website

One Man's Blog about how he deepened and developed his Latin--Randy Gibbons

A Nice Source for Latin Phrases

A Motherload of Articles You Will Want to Read