Pre- and Posttest of a Study on Latin Vocabulary Acquisition with Intermediate Learners (Ovid)

Here, the test materials are released that were used in the second intervention study conducted over a period of 6 to 8 weeks in two high-schools in Berlin, Germany (2018, 2019). The aim of this study was to evaluate how students in Latin classes in Germany deal with their vocabulary knowledge and whether they consider the context of words.

A key question of the still ongoing research project is: How can vocabulary competence in a historical language such as Latin be acquired and deepened by using corpus-based, i.e. context-based, methods? This question is based on a broad understanding of vocabulary that refers back to theories of the mental lexicon.

Note: The English version is a translation. Because of the context-based questions pretest and posttest differ in the selected myth, but not in the given tasks.