Title: German and French Borrowings in an EFL Context – A SerbianPerspective
Abstract: This paper looks into the nature, some specificities of interlanguage usage and
the phonetic adaptation (or the lack of it) in the area of some recent French and German
loanwords and their teaching in a Serbian EFL classroom. It is a commonplace to say that
French, German and English have been in intensive contact for many centuries now, but
the level and direction of influence have by no means been constant. The two main
extralinguistic criteria that trigger the borrowing process, need and prestige, are taken into
account, with the aim of deciding to what extent such newer lexical acquisitions have
been nativised in contemporary English. The nature of the linguistic contact between
French and English, on the one hand, and German and English, on the other, conditions
the selection process in which a loanword enters the English lexicon, and an EFL
classroom. Lastly, a justification for the teaching of borrowings is provided and some
guidelines for their teaching offered, which could easily be implemented in any EFL
context.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
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