Date: 10-Jan-2008 From: Kathryn King <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-Based Loanwords: Daulton E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-Based Loanwords
Series Title: Second Language Acquisition
Published: 2008
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Many of the most important English vocabulary may already exist in native lexicons. This pioneering book examines Japanese lexical borrowing, clarifies the effect of cognates on foreign language acquisition, assesses Japanese cognates that correspond to high-frequency and academic English, and discusses using this resource in teaching. Extensive lists of loanword cognates are included.
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Sociolinguistics