Classics in translation . Volume 2 Latin literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Paul MacKendrick and Herbert M. Howe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463308203321
• Autore: MacKendrick Paul L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c1952
• ISBN: 0-299-80899-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (454 pages)
• Collana: Classics in Translation
• Altri autori (Persone): MacKendrickPaul; HoweHerbert M
• Disciplina: 880.08
• Soggetti: Classical literature; Latin literature; English literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in print c1952.
• Nota di contenuto: Roman culture: an essay -- The haunted house of Plautus -- The woman from Andros of Terence -- Titus Lucretius Carus on the nature of things -- Selections from Sallust -- Selections from the speeches of Cicero -- Selections from Cicero's philosophical works -- Selections from the poems of Catullus -- Selections from the Georgics of Vergil -- Selections from the Aeneid of Vergil -- Selections from the Odes of Horace -- Selections from Ovid -- Selections from Livy's History of Rome -- The deeds of Deified Augustus -- Seneca's Medea -- Selections from the Satyricon of Petronius -- Selections from Quintilian's The training of the oraror -- Selected letters of the younger Pliny -- Selections from Tacitus -- Selections from the Sixth satire of Juvenal -- Selections from the Deified Julius of Suetonius.
• Sommario/riassunto: Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have consitituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered by the Department of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin.

Living and studying abroad [[electronic resource] ] : research and practice / / edited by Michael Byram and Anwei Feng

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784012103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Clevedon [England] ; ; Buffalo, NY, : Multilingual Matters Ltd., 2006
• ISBN: 1-280-60965-6; 9786610609659; 1-85359-912-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Collana: Languages for intercultural communication and education ; ; 12
• Altri autori (Persone): ByramMichael; FengAnwei <1954->
• Disciplina: 370.116
• Soggetti: Foreign study; Foreign study - Research; Foreign study - Research - Methodology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-276)
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Japanese Students in Britain -- Chapter 3. Recording the Journey: Diaries of Irish Students in Japan -- Chapter 4. The One Less Travelled By . . .: The Experience of Chinese Students in a UK University -- Chapter 5. Reciprocal Adjustment by Host and Sojourning Groups: Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong -- Chapter 6. Study Abroad and Experiences of Cultural Distance and Proximity: French Erasmus Students -- Chapter 7. Ethnographic Pedagogy and Evaluation in Short-Term Study Abroad -- Chapter 8. Student Perspectives in Short-Term Study Programmes Abroad: A Grounded Theory Study -- Chapter 9. The Assistant Experience in Retrospect and its Educational and Professional Significance in Teachers’ Biographies -- Chapter 10. British Students in France: 10 Years On -- Chapter 11. Assessing Intercultural Competence in Study Abroad Students -- References
• Sommario/riassunto: The internationalisation of higher education has led to study abroad being a large scale phenomenon. Students spend short periods on study tours or a year or more taking courses in foreign universities. ; Studying aboard cannot be dissociated however from learning to live in another country and culture. The need to adapt to a new education system is obvious but the inevitable difficulties of living in another culture for the purpose of study are also an important facet of the whole experience. Chapters in this book report research into this whole phenomenon. Authors have researched students travelling across the world, from East to West and West to East, and also the effects of studying in countries which seem to be more like students’ own. Each chapter explains the case in question, the findings from the research and what the implications might be. The second part of each chapter is then a critical reflection on the research methods used. The book thus provides a guide to the complexity of this kind of research and how that complexity can be handled with appropriate techniques and methods.