
I keep track of mentions of the word WebQuest using
Technorati, which tracks the travails of pre-service teachers creating WebQuests in a required class, and occasionally the wails of high school kids who were assigned a WebQuest. I learn a lot from reading these unedited accounts. Increasingly there are blogs in Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese that mention WebQuests, too, and today I noticed something I hadn't thought of before: WebQuests are girly.
Here's the evidence: "
Las WebQuest", "
Una WebQuest", "
La WebQuest", "
Esta WebQuest" and there are lots more where those came from.
I wonder if that's true in German or any of the other languages that assign gender to nouns? And how do they know?