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Must a person speak a language to understand it?
This is an important question to ask for instructors of ancient languages who want to move toward communicative approaches to language instruction, and the answer to this question is: no. This doesn’t necessarily rule out that we should use communication in ancient language instruction (though for this and a number of other reasons I wouldn’t),…
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Making assumptions to make progress
I’ve recently been reading Anna Basso’s Aphasia and Its Therapy. I found this passage interesting where she states that it is sometimes necessary to make assumptions, whether or not one believes them to be true or can prove them to be true, in order to progress: The use of pathological data for the study of…