From: Randall Buth (ButhFam@compuserve.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 15:48:29 EST
shalom Clay,
I think you've made a good point.
>
>Have you ever known anyone who has moved "beyond --- categories" once they
>have been forced to learn them?
>
>Why start off with a linguistically inadequate language model just so you
>can go through all the trouble of unlearning it later?
>
>Using these categories is going to flavor your whole approach doing NT
>Greek. Most students will never "move beyond" them.
>
>Clay<
However, to give you some optimism,
Yes, people do move beyond inadequate categories.
It helps if people ask questions of themselves and listen to other
people's questions.
It also helps if people really learn a language 'inside-out'.
If they can do that in a language with outside controls,
say German or Modern Hebrew, then it is easier for them to
recognize artificial frameworks in their ancient language
pedagogy.
See, I did the above without citing the perennial form versus
function debate that always surfaces on this list in many guises.
ERRWSO
Randall Buth
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