{"id":2866,"date":"2020-06-06T18:29:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T17:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurocomdidact.eu\/?page_id=2866"},"modified":"2021-06-14T10:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:21:21","slug":"unmasking-similar-words-in-various-languages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eurocomdidact.eu\/?page_id=2866&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Learning with EuroComDidact ToGo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The app EuroComDidact ToGo does not only train to build up interlingual routines for unmasking &#8218;unknown&#8216; words in foreign languages. It also supports to identify morphological correspondancy rules between bridge and target languages.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;\" lang=\"EN\">The following figure shows how the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>EuroComDidact ToGo <\/em><\/span>app exercises look like. On the right side, the example presents a form-congruent series (<em>Erkl\u00e4rung, explication, explicaci\u00f3n..<\/em>.), on the left side, we see a partly opaque series (<em>charmant, affascinante, encantador<\/em>&#8230;)<br><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; page-break-after: avoid;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5178\" src=\"https:\/\/eurocomdidact.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Explic3-charmant-OK-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eurocomdidact.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Explic3-charmant-OK-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eurocomdidact.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Explic3-charmant-OK-100x59.jpg 100w, https:\/\/eurocomdidact.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Explic3-charmant-OK-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eurocomdidact.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Explic3-charmant-OK-200x119.jpg 200w, https:\/\/eurocomdidact.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Explic3-charmant-OK-450x267.jpg 450w, https:\/\/eurocomdidact.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Explic3-charmant-OK-600x357.jpg 600w, https:\/\/eurocomdidact.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Explic3-charmant-OK.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoCaption\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN\">The choice of the target language &#8222;Italian&#8220; requires the insertion <\/span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\" lang=\"EN\">of<b> <em>spiegazione<\/em><\/b>.<\/span><span lang=\"EN\"> The partly opaque words\u2019 series appears entirely<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">. Here, learners will focus attention on the Italian word, because it is a word of the target language chosen.<br><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span lang=\"EN\">The following explanations elucidate the educational potential of the exercise pattern in terms of interlingual morphological and orthographic correspondences. Mentioning the learning goals provides information about exercise patterns and tasks.<br><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span lang=\"EN\">Learning goals concerning Italian<\/span><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Knowing that in Italian the international prefix <em>ex-\/es<\/em>&#8211; is frequently replaced by <em>s+consonant<\/em>: <em>spiegazione<\/em>, <em>lo<\/em> <em>studente<\/em>, <em>lo spirito<\/em> \u2260<em> esprimere, espresso<\/em> (en.\/fr. <em>explication<\/em>, sp. <em>estudiante,<\/em> en. <em>express<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>Knowing that the suffixes en.\/fr. &#8211;<em>tion-<\/em>it.-<em>zione-<\/em>pt. &#8211;<em>c\u00e3o-<\/em>sp. &#8211;<em>ci\u00f3n-<\/em>ge. \u2011<em>tion<\/em>\u2013 are equivalent and generate the feminization of words.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;Deepening and widening lexical knowledge of the lexematic root <em>-plicat\u2011:<\/em> <em>duplicat<\/em>-&#8230; sp. <em>duplicado<\/em>, ge. <em>duplizieren<\/em>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Realizing that in Italian, double consonants are of high frequency.<\/li>\n<li>Controlling whether <em>a-ffascinante<\/em> is in relationship with <em>ad-fascinante<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>Getting aware that one&#8217;s own prior knowledge as far as it is relevant to language learning is important for acquiring plurilingualism.<\/li>\n<li>Knowing that between interlingually transparent words semantic adequacy is not always given.<\/li>\n<li>Knowing that interlingually opaque words reduce intercomprehensibilty. (The number of the fully opaque series is limited. In the <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Core Vocabulary of Romance Plurilingualism<\/em><\/span> it amounts to about 850 out of 9550 series. The sooner opaque words are acquired, the more transparent foreign language texts will be.)<\/li>\n<li>Knowing that new insights into foreign language learning must be integrated into one&#8217;s own individual Road Map of Learning.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><span lang=\"EN\">Learning goals about acquiring multilingual reading skills<br><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span>The learning objectives listed for Italian as a target language also apply to the promotion of plurilingual reading skills.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Learning languages through the intercomprehension approach means creating associations between the languages involved and their learning.<\/li>\n<li>Getting sensitive to false friends and knowing how to identify them. Starting with form-congruent series: en. <em>charming, fr. charmant, ge. charmant, sp. encandador, it. affascinante<\/em>:<br>a. Does the series have a common semantic nucleus? Where are differences? Language for language.<br>b. What is the difference between the words (form equivalencies) in terms of forms and contents?<br>c. What about use?<\/li>\n<li>What strategy to avoid errors in writing and speaking? (Exclusively for those who want to acquire productive skills.)<\/li>\n<li>What is the difference between en. <em>explanation <\/em>and <em>explication<\/em>? (for native speakers of English: \u2026 between fr.&nbsp;<em>crisser <\/em>and&nbsp;<em>grincer<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Tools<\/h4>\n<p>To develop your answers, make use of concordancers, for example :<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corpusdoportugues.org\/\">https:\/\/www.corpusdoportugues.org\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corpusdelespanol.org\/\">https:\/\/www.corpusdelespanol.org\/<\/a><br>To get further information:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/wikis.fu-berlin.de\/display\/tdr\/Spanische+Korpora+und+Textdatenbanken\">https:\/\/wikis.fu-berlin.de\/display\/tdr\/Spanische+Korpora+und+Textdatenbanken<\/a><br><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Davies, Mark. (2008-) <i>The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): One billion million words, 1990-2019<\/i>. <\/span><span lang=\"FR\">Available online at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-corpora.org\/coca\/\"><span lang=\"FR\">https:\/\/www.english-corpora.org\/coca\/<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"FR\">.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"> &nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><br>\n<div id=\"ftn1\">\n<p class=\"MsoFootnoteText\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The app EuroComDidact ToGo does not only train to build up interlingual routines for unmasking &#8218;unknown&#8216; words in foreign languages. It also supports to identify morphological correspondancy rules between bridge and target languages. 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