A modern language is any humanlanguage that is used by societies in the world today. Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens Human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. ...
The term is sometimes used by university departments to distinguish between languages such as French or Russian, which are still spoken by millions of people and are often learned for their usefulness as tools of communication, and classical languages such as Attic Greek or Classical Chinese, which are studied for their cultural value, rather than for any practical purpose. A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... A classical language is a language with a literary tradition that can be judged as classical. According to George L. Hart: [To] qualify as a classical tradition, a language must fit several criteria: it should be ancient, it should be an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own not... Attic Greek is the ancient dialect of the Greek language that was spoken in Attica, which includes Athens. ... Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese (文言, pinyin: wényán, literal meaning: literary language or 古文, literal: ancient written language) is a traditional style of written Chinese prose using grammar and vocabulary very different from any modern spoken form of Chinese. ...
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The educational philosophy of the Department of Classical and ModernLanguages is essentially humanistic: through the mastery of a language different from those in which students have been raised, it is expected that students be able to understand the culture and history of the people who speak that language.
Modernlanguage classes are taught in a communicative approach and almost entirely in the target language.
The classical languages are taught with more emphasis on Grammar and reading skills; several communication type activities, however, such as role-playing, games and theater performance are also implemented in order to use both the analytical functions in the left brain as well as the psychomotor, intuitive and social skills in the right hemisphere.
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