LNGT0101: Introduction to Linguistics
Please take a few minutes to fill in the information below. When you’re finished typing
your answers, save the file adding your last name to the name of the file (e.g., if your last
name is “Smith”, change the name of this file to LNGT0101_questionnaire_smith), and
then send it to me via e-mail at usoltan@middlebury.edu, before Monday’s class.
Thanks.
(Note: If a question is irrelevant to you, you may simply leave it blank.)
1. Name:
2. Majors/minors:
3. What is your native language?
4. If you are a native speaker of English, do you think when you speak English that
your manner of speech makes it possible for someone to guess where you are
from? If yes, why is that? If you’re not a native speaker of English, do you think
when you speak your own native language that your manner of speech makes it
possible for someone to guess where you are from in your country? If yes, why is
that?
5. Do you speak any foreign languages? If yes, which one(s)?
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6. What other linguistics or language-related courses (excluding any foreign
language classes) did you take before or are you taking now?
7. What got you interested in learning about linguistics?
8. What’s one or more topics of the study of language that you hope this course will
cover?
9. If you have any comments, suggestions, expectations for this course or to the
instructor, please feel free to write them here.
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