Innovation in methodology and practice in language learning : experiences and proposals for university language centres / / edited by Christopher Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797681303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-4438-8153-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (537 p.)
• Disciplina: 418.00711
• Soggetti: Language and languages - Study and teaching (Higher); Language schools
• 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 at the end of each chapters.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is composed of 24 papers originally presented as talks at the VIII National Conference of the Italian Association of University Language Centres (Associazione Italiana dei Centri Linguistici Universitari: AICLU), held at the University of Foggia, Italy, between 30 May and 1st June 2013.The contributions fall into five sections: 1) keynote addresses from plenary speakers; 2) innovative challenges for language centres; 3) new developments in teaching language for specific purposes; 4) proposals and case studies in Content and Language Integrated Learning; and 5) the use of new techno

Texts from the "Archive" of Socrates, the Tax Collector, and Other Contexts at Karanis : (P. Cair. Mich. II) / / edited by Mohamed Gaber El-Maghrabi and Cornelia Römer ; with contributions by S. El-Masry [and six others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821804303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 3-11-038388-8; 3-11-034570-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (166 p.)
• Collana: Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete. Beiheft, , 1868-9337 ; ; 35
• Classificazione: ND 3930
• Disciplina: 913.32
• Soggetti: Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) - Egypt - Karanis (Extinct city); Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) - Egypt - Cairo; Karanis (Extinct city)
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- TABLE OF CONTENT -- Preface -- Introduction -- A. Literary Texts from the “Archive” of Socrates, the Tax Collector (House B17) -- B. Literary Texts from Street BS1 in Front of B17, and Other Houses -- C. Documents from House B17 and from Street BS1 (House B17) -- D. Documents from Other Locations in Karanis -- Bibliography -- INDEXES
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume of Papyri contains a selection of 25 pieces which were excavated in the village of Karanis in the north-eastern Fayum (Egypt) by American archaeologists between 1924 and 1926. Many of the texts published here come from the archive of a well known figure in the village life of Karanis in the 2nd century AD: Socrates, son of Sarapion, was a tax collector here for many years, serving the Roman Empire collecting taxes due in money and in kind. Besides his successful economic activities - Socrates certainly belonged to the upper stratum of society in Karanis - the tax collector was a lover of Greek literature; for sure, he did not venture into high philosophy and the like, but he ; read Homer, comedies, and tried to be up to date about mythology in plays. Half of the new texts published here are literary, mostly from Socrates’ library; other texts were found in the immediate neighbourhood of where Socrates lived, such as a surgical treatise about remedies of shoulder dislocations, which perhaps belonged to a doctor. The other half of the papyrus texts in this volume are documents that can shed new light on the activities of the tax collector, or of other inhabitants of Karanis. Altogether they give us a vivid picture of village life in Graeco/Roman Egypt in the 2nd century AD.