Teaching Interests:
Post-Doctoral
| 1998-2002 | University of Maryland
Course work in Latin language and literature (Lat. I, II, Pedagogy, Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Mythology, Linguistics) |
| Summer 1995 | Petrozavodsk State University, Karelia, Russia
International Research and Exchanges Board: Summer Teacher Exchange |
| Summer 1991 | University of Antwerp
Intermediate Intensive Dutch |
| July 1986, 1987 | Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Summer Teacher Seminar |
University
| 1985, Ph.D. | Indiana University (with distinction)
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Major: Slavic Liguistics Minors: Semitic Languages, Turkic Languages Dissertation: Markedness Theory and Verb Systems of Russian and Arabic: Aspect, Tense, Mood |
| 1980-81 | Moscow State University
International Research and Exchanges Board |
| July 1977 | Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Intensive Intermediate Arabic |
| 1976, M.A. | Indiana University, Slavic Languages and Literatures |
| 1973, B.A. | Boston University, Russian and Linguistics |
| July, 1972 | Leningrad Polytechnical Institute (Advanced Russian) |
| 1971-1972 | Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Junior Year Abroad) |
Language Proficiences (State Department Scale: 1-Novice to 5-Native)
English (native), Hebrew (4+), Russian (4+), Latin (3),
Dutch (3), French (2+), German (2), Polish (2),
Arabic (2), Turkish (1)
College Language Teaching Experience
Latin
| 2002-2003 | Latin teacher (I, III)
Atholton High School, Columbia, MD |
| Spring 2002 | Adjunct Instructor, George Washington University, Washington, DC |
Hebrew: Assistant Professor
| 1996-2002 | University of Maryland, College Park MD |
| 1985-1995 | Brown University, Providence, RI |
Russian: Assistant Professor
| 1995-1996 | Duke University, Durham, NC |
| 1990-1995 | Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA |
Pre-doctoral Teaching
| 1982-1985 | University of Washington, Seattle, WA
(Lecturer, Hebrew) |
| 1975-1982 | Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
(Graduate Assistant, Russian and Hebrew) |
Courses Taught
Linguistics: Structure of Hebrew; Structure of Russian; Structure of English (for English majors and prospective teachers); Language Universals; Contrastive Structures of the Languages of Europe; Languages of the World; History of the Alphabets: Hebrew-Arabic-Greek-Roman-Cyrillic |
Publications
Books in print
| 1996 | The Well-Tempered Announcer: A Pronunciation Guide to Classical Music (Indiana University Press). |
| 1991 | Stalking the Wild Verb Phrase: A Self-Paced, Self-Correcting Adventure into English Grammar for Speakers of English Learning Other Languages. (University Press of America). |
in preparation
| Latin Inflectional Strategies: The Sense Behind Declensions and Conjugations |
Selected Articles
| 2001 | (in press) Grammar in the Dictionary: An English-Hebrew Grammalexicon. Journal of Higher Hebrew Education. |
| 1996 | Typologies of Person Categories in Slavic and Semitic.
In: Andrews, Edna and Yishai Tobin, eds., Towards a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in Markedness, Distinctive Features, and Deixis. (Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe series.) (John Benjamins) pp. 319-345. |
| 1995a. | Innies’ and ‘Outies’: Paradigm Shuffle and the Russian
Verb.
Russian Language Journal XLIX, Nos. 162-164., pp. 41-52. |
| 1995b. | Did Russian Re-Create Hebrew In Its Own Image?
Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education. Vol 6-7, pp. 15-29. |
| 1994a. | Watch Your Metalanguage!
Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. (New York: Modern Language Association. Vol. 25, No. 2.) pp. 30-36. |
| 1994b. | Plus One/Plus None: The Communicative Conundrum and Russian
Conjugation.
Russian Language Journal XLVIII, Nos. 159-161, pp. 29-50. |
Selected Conference Papers and Invited Lectures
(Full list available on request)
CAAS (Classical Association of the Atlantic States)
| 2002a | The Career Switch to High School Latin |
| 2002b. | Estranged Grammar: What Latin Does Not Tell You About English |
| 2001a. | Smart Stems and Theme Vowel Envy: A New/Old Approach to Teaching Latin Conjugation |
| 2001b. | Who/m Is It: On English Grammar in the Shadow of Latin |
| 2000a. | What’s the Trouble with Latin Sounds: On Latin Phonotactics and Their Grammatical Consequences |
| 2000b. | The Parisyllabic Fallacy and Other Classroom Conundra |
| 1999 | The Greatest Legacy: The Roman Alphabet in Modern Europe |
Other Classical Venues
| 2002 | Anatomically Correct: A One-Stem System for Latin Conjugation
Washington Area Latin Teachers' Association |
| 2000 | Latin as a Human Language
George Washington University Ancient Mediterranean Seminar |
Hebrew-related
NACAL (North American Conference on Afro-Asiatic
Linguistics)
| 2000 | An English-Hebrew Preposition Chain. |
| 1999 | Hebrew Phonological Space and the History of the Alphabet. |
| 1988 | Hebrew Vowel Alternations and the Mid-Vowel Fallacy. |
| 1987 | Markedness and Iconicity in Semitic Verbal Affixation. |
NAPH (National Association of Professors of Hebrew)
| 2001 | Old Dogs, New Tricks: A New Approach to Hebrew Grammar Charts |
| 1998 | Prolegomena to a Notional-Functional Dictionary of Hebrew and English. |
| 1996 | A Functional Approach to Hebrew Vowel Alternations. |
Russian-related
AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic
and East European Languages)
| 1993 | On the Rhythm of Russian Conjugation. |
| 1989 | The Semantic Structure of Russian Verbal Categories. |
General Linguistics, Typology, Pedagogy, Writing Systems
FLAVA (Foreign Language Association of Virginia)
| 1993 | Linguistic Pheromones? (On Talking About Related vs. Neighboring Languages). |
| 1992 | Watch Your Metalanguage! (On Grammar in the Classroom). |
Other Linguistic and Pedagogy Papers
| 1999 | A Linguistic Euro: The Roman Alphabet vs. European Phonologies. Linguistic Colloquium, George Mason University. |
| 1997 | ‘Noun’ and ‘Verb” are not Four-Letter Words
University of Maryland, TA Training session |
Invited Linguistic and Pedagogical Outreach For The
General Public
| 1997 | Smithsonian Institution
Designed six-lecture series, “Origins of Writing,” contributing two lectures: “Linguistic Locksmiths: The Great Decipherments”’ “Modern Alphabets and their Common Near Eastern Origin.” |
| 1995-1998 | AMPPR (Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio)
Lecture/Workshop in Phonetics and Linguistic Issues in the Media (Based on The Well-Tempered Announcer) |
| 1996 | Current: The National Public Telecommunications Newspaper
“You Say Pah-vuh-RAH-tee; I Say Pah-vah-ROH-tee.” (Invited article on language awareness in the media.) |
| 1995 | Central Intelligence Agency Language School
“English Grammar and General Principles for Language Learners and Teachers” (Workshop based on Stalking the Wild Verb Phras) |
References:
| Prof. Judith Hallett, chair
Dept. of Classics Marie Mount Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 301-405-2024 jh10@umail.umd.edu |
Prof. Cynthia Martin
School of Languages Jimenez Hall 3215 University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 301-405-4244 cm93@umail.umd.edu |
Constance Lewis, Principal
Atholton High School Freetown Rd. Columbia, MD 410-313-7065 |
Statement of Purpose
| After 25 years of teaching Russian and Hebrew at the
college level, I decided to make a career switch to high school Latin teaching
in the Washington-Maryland area. I believe language education is such an
important part of secondary education that I have decided I can better
serve a wider student population by devoting myself to high school Latin.
I began preparing for this move in 1998, taking Latin courses with my Classics Department colleagues at the University of Maryland, and am now (2002-03) teaching Latin I and III at Atholton High School in Columbia, MD. It is a wonderful experience so far. I feel I communicate with 14-18 year olds as well as I did with my college students. My teaching style remains active and interactive, and students are responding very well. I have thorougly familiarized myself with several current Latin textbooks and with much of the Advanced Placement literature curriculum. As an active member of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States I have given well-received papers at the last six semi-annual regional meetings on aspects of teaching Latin and English grammar. These papers form the basis of my book-in-progress Latin Inflectional Strategies: Behind the Scenes at the Latin Grammar Rule Factory. In Spring 2002 I also taught a Latin course at George Washington University (Roots of Medical Terminology). The Classics department at University of Maryland has named me adjunct assistant professor so that I can also give the course on "History of the Alphabets" that I developed while on the faculty there. (Some material for that course is available at www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin, click on "Evolution of Alphabets.") This material would fit well in a Latin curriculum as well as courses in world culture, history, or geography. |