I'm taking a quick graduate class on word study-- 3 credits in 6 Saturday sessions-- and today was the first meeting. A few observations:
For the teacher with the second most years in the field, the ice-breaker was not too onerous.
What size is my vocabulary, anyway?
(According to a couple of online tests, somewhere between 28 and 35 thousand.)
What the hell is an affricate?
(Answer: a phoneme that combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing the same place of articulation, e.g., ch as in chair and j as in jar.)
The new(ish) thing is to refer to students as "kiddos."
When certain kiddos dominate the group activity, other kiddos check out.
For the teacher with the second most years in the field, the ice-breaker was not too onerous.
What size is my vocabulary, anyway?
(According to a couple of online tests, somewhere between 28 and 35 thousand.)
What the hell is an affricate?
(Answer: a phoneme that combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing the same place of articulation, e.g., ch as in chair and j as in jar.)
The new(ish) thing is to refer to students as "kiddos."
When certain kiddos dominate the group activity, other kiddos check out.
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