Current Methods and Methodology in Ladino Teaching

Beginning of article

Current Methods and Methodology in Ladino Teaching

"Current Methods and Methodology in Ladino Teaching" presents an historical overview of Ladino research in Israel from the early 1960s until the present day, which forms a backdrop for recent developments in the pedagogy of Ladino. Although the researchers of the sixties were primarily interested in the preservation of archaic Spanish forms in the Ladino ballads, recent years have witnessed the establishment of Ladino as a field of university investigation in its own right. As a result of an increased interest in Sefardic Studies as a separate discipline, committed scholars have successfully convinced Israeli universities that …