VEST, OCCIDENT, APUS, ASFINȚIT: IDENTIFICAREA UNOR CUVINTE ÎNRUDITE PENTRU DEZVOLTAREA REPERTORIULUI PLURILINGV ȘI PLURICULTURAL AL STUDENȚILOR INTERNAȚIONALI CARE ÎNVAȚĂ LIMBA ROMÂNĂ CA L2
VEST (WEST), OCCIDENT (OCCIDENT), APUS, ASFINȚIT (SUNSET): IDENTIFYING COGNATES TO DEVELOP THE PLURILINGUAL AND PLURICULTURAL REPERTOIRE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS LEARNING ROMANIAN AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: This approach follows an experiment meant to valorize and enrich the plurilingual and pluricultural repertoires of international students studying Romanian as a second language, speakers of Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish or Turkmen. The theoretical framework is offered by etymological and lexicographic studies, while also integrating the methodological suggestions from the Complementary Volume with New Descriptors (2020), which develop the descriptors from the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (2001). The analytical approach focused on associating cognates from Romanian and the languages known by the students, from the semantic fields of the terms vest, occident, apus, and asfințit, as well as outlining multilingual networks of words with similar forms or meanings. The etymological analysis of words integrated into such semantic constellations revealed unsuspected affinities and similar semantic evolutions, but also phonetic, semantic and sociocultural differentiations.

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