Introduction: The Importance of Cognates for EFL in Japan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: The Importance of Cognates for EFL in Japan 1
5. Part 1: Japan’s Importation of English
6. Chapter 1. The Assimilation of English into Japanese – A Historical and Linguistic Overview 9
7. Chapter 2. Today’s Generation of Gairaigo 24
8. Part 2: Gairaigo and Language Acquisition
9. Chapter 3. Resolving the Paradox of Cognates 43
10. Chapter 4. The Effect of Loanwords in Japanese on the Learning of English 61
11. Part 3: The Built-in Lexicons
12. Chapter 5. Common Loanword Cognates for High-frequency and Academic English 77
13. Chapter 6. Quantifying the Overlap and Quality of Japanese/English Cognates 87
14. Part 4: Exploiting Japanese Loanword Cognates
15. Chapter 7. Barriers to Accessing Cognates 101
16. Chapter 8. Extending Word Knowledge Within Word Families 110
17. Epilogue: New Horizons 123
18. Appendix 1: The Standard Set of Katakana 131
19. Appendix 2: The List of Common Loanwords Corresponding to the BNC 3000 133
20. Appendix 3: Academic Borrowed Words 156
21. Appendix 4. The Similarity of 1K Sampled Borrowed Words and Japanese Loanwords 164
22. Appendix 5. The Similarity of 2K Sampled Borrowed Words and Japanese Loanwords 168
23. Appendix 6. The Similarity of 3K Sampled Borrowed Words and Japanese Loanwords 171
24. References 173
25. Index 183