THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL WORDS IN DEVELOPMENT OF ERUDITION

Abstract

This article presents the results of the study of the international loanwords’ functioning both in English and Russian languages as exemplified by their usage in learners’ written papers. The comparative analysis of “new words” presented in textbooks of English and their meanings in the Russian dictionaries of foreign words aims at finding similarities in structures of loanwords in both languages and using them in various exercises that will activate and broaden the leaners’ erudition if applying it to written works.

Keywords

• international
• loanword
• language
• vocabulary
• dictionary of foreign words
• erudition
• международный
• заимствование
• язык
• лексика
• словарь иностранных слов
• эрудиция