Mixed Topic and Quiz 2 Review
What are the articulatory features (e.g., voicing, place of articulation, manner of articulation) of the phone [g]?
Voiced / Velar / Stop
A student writes the following sentence, "The education is very important for children." With respect to the noun education, the student is struggling with what feature of English nouns?
Abstract nouns (nouns you cannot see, hear, smell, touch, or taste).
"I saw the movie yesterday."
What part of speech is the word saw?
Simple Past
What is a concise definition for morpheme?
Minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function in a language.
Write a concise definitions for semantics?
The study of the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences.
The study of linguistic meaning.
An EL student writes the following sentence in an essay: "I work here since 2015." In your written feedback, you correct the sentence to: "I have worked here since 2015." What is the name of the tense that describes situations that begin in the past and continue to the present that the EL has issues with?
Present Perfect
English learners often incorrectly pluralize nouns that cannot be grammatically plural such as informations, homeworks, and advices. What is the name of this grammatical point that the learners have trouble with?
Count vs. Non-countable nouns
"I saw a tiger at the zoo yesterday."
What part of speech is the underlined word in the sentence above?
Indefinite Article
The past tense -ed morpheme as in worked and helped is what type of morpheme?
The words modern and contemporary are: _______.
Synonyms
What are vocabulary items that tend to be paired together such as salt and pepper and crystal clear known as from a language teaching perspective?
Collocations
Rules such as never end a sentence in a preposition are an example of this kind of grammar.
Prescriptive grammar
The morpheme -able changes verbs to adjectives as in readable. What kind of morpheme is -able?
A bound derivational morpheme
What is the relationship between the words Sole (single) and Sole (part of the foot or shoe)?
They are homonyms
Consider the following words in French: /bo/ for beau (handsome) and /bo'/ for bon (good). The tilde above the symbol /o/ indicates a nasalized vowel. What do these words tell us about the distribution of /o/ and /o'/ in French?
/o/ and /o'/ are phonemes in French
Phrasal verbs are particularly difficult for ELs for a variety of reasons. List at least two reasons why.
-Not common in the world's languages
-Many phrasal verbs have multiple meanings
-Difficult to translate
-Separable vs. Inseparable
-Transitive vs. Intransitive
-Pronoun Placement
"Piece of cake" which means something is easy to do.
What are the morphological rules for plural and third person singular -s in English as demonstrated by the following vowels: cats (s), dogs (z), and horses (iz)?
When the meaning of one word is included in the meaning of another word, such as: soda/beverage and rose/flower. We refer to this relationship as:
Hyponymy
Certain features of English Grammar are more difficult than others from an EL perspective. List at least two of the most problematic areas of grammar of ELs.
-Present Perfect
-Prepositions
-Phrasal Verbs
-Articles
The student says the following: "I have seen a movie yesterday." What is the student's issue in this particular sentence?
Present Perfect - Action at an indefinite time in the past.
Simple Past - Action at the definite time in the past.
Consider the following sentence:
I have been to Disney before.
What part of speech is before in the sentence above?An adverb
-ed morpheme as demonstrated by the following words: walked (t), used (d), and needed (id)
The ending depends on the last sound of the base word.
- If the last sound is voiceless = t
-If the last sound is voiced = d
-If the last sound is t/d = id
Sentences that end in prepositions in English such as: "who are you looking at," "who do you work with," and "what are you talking about" are all grammatical sentences in English despite some language teachers being opposed to their usage. The sentences are an example of this kind of grammar.
Descriptive grammar