UTJECAJ GERMANIZAMA U ŠKOLSKIM LEKTIRAMA NA NASTAVU NJEMAČKOG KAO STRANOG JEZIKA
THE INFLUENCE OF GERMAN LOANWORDS IN SCHOOL READING MATERIALS ON THE TEACHING OF GERMAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the presence of Germanisms in school reading materials and their impact on teaching German as a foreign language. Reading enriches the vocabulary of both the mother tongue and foreign languages, often leading to the unconscious use of loanwords. The research was conducted among sixth-grade primary school students through three phases of surveying to examine their ability to recognize Germanisms, understand their meaning, and connect them with the German language. The corpus consisted of 42 Germanisms extracted from four literary works included in the school curriculum. The results indicate that while students successfully recognize Germanisms in context and associate them with the German language, there is a notable gap in their precise understanding of these words' meanings. The paper concludes that Germanisms in school readings represent a valuable didactic potential for activating students' prior lexical knowledge and facilitating the acquisition of new vocabulary in a foreign language.

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