Scenario
You are teaching a linguistics course for students enrolled in the bachelor’s in elementary education program at your local college. In the first week of your course, you want to help your students become familiar with the terminology they will need to know as future elementary teachers.
Assignment Deliverable
Develop a 10-question quiz about language and linguistics concepts. Be sure to include the question, the answer, and an explanation.
Your quiz should incorporate terms used in the first two weeks of this course (i.e., phonemes, morphemes, phonetics, etc.). You should not simply copy/paste terms from the readings. Your questions should be written in your own words. For example, you may want to create some short scenarios and have your students identify which term is being discussed in the scenarios.
Review the following examples of different types of questions:
Scenario Example
Question: An English teacher explains that adding an “s” to the end of a word can change the meaning of it. For example, changing cat to cats means there is more than one cat. What linguistic term describes the smallest unit added to a word (e.g., this “s”)?
Answer/explanation: A morpheme is the smallest unit. In the above example, the morpheme “s” changes the noun from singular to plural.
True/False Example
Question: In the word unhappy, the prefix “un” is a morpheme that changes the meaning of the word happy.
Answer/explanation: True. The morpheme “un” is the prefix used to negate the meaning of the word happy.
Multiple-Choice Example
Question: Adding “er” or “ing” to the word run changes its meaning. What are these added parts called in linguistic terms? a) phonemes b) morpheme c) semantics d) syntax
Answer/explanation: The answer is b) morpheme. The morphemes “er” and “ing” change the meaning. Runner is the person running while running indicates the present action of running.
You may include scenarios, matching, true/false, multiple-choice questions, or a combination of these types of questions.
