Title: A re-examination of loanwords as an aid for English language learning and teaching
Abstract: The impact of loanwords on English vocabulary acquisition has been ubiquitous much-discussed topic in
English teaching contexts such as Japan, where the language includes a large number of English-derived
words in the form of loanwords. Despite considerable discussion of this issue, however, there is little
corpus-based research that provides a descriptive analysis of English-origin words in comparison to their
parent words in English. This explanatory study aims to explore the application/implications of a particular
loanword in Japanese using a corpus-based approach, and to suggest the pedagogic implications for how
loanwords should be treated when teaching English vocabulary in order to make use of this rich linguistic
source that is already available in learners’ first language.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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