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@article{37661, author = {Raušer, Daniel}, article_location = {Salamanca, Spain}, article_number = {No. 1}, keywords = {false friends; true friends; language interference; cross-linguistic influence}, language = {eng}, issn = {2254-4496}, journal = {Caracteres}, title = {Selected English-Czech False Friends and Their Use in the Works of Some Czech Students}, volume = {Vol. 6}, year = {2017} }
TY - JOUR ID - 37661 AU - Raušer, Daniel PY - 2017 TI - Selected English-Czech False Friends and Their Use in the Works of Some Czech Students JF - Caracteres VL - Vol. 6 IS - No. 1 SP - 209-233 EP - 209-233 PB - Editorial Delirio SN - 22544496 KW - false friends KW - true friends KW - language interference KW - cross-linguistic influence N2 - This paper serves mainly for practical study purposes and focuses on selected vocabulary taken from various Internet sources and subsequently put into wrong contexts by some Czech students of English at an institute of tertiary education, where the paper’s author is currently employed at the Department of Foreign Languages. When assessing the students’ oral presentations and submitted term papers, he very often encounters expressions the students borrow from English, yet incorrectly interpret as their semantic equivalents in the Czech language. Using these specifically opposing vocabularies, commonly referred to as “false friends”, account for repeatedly occurring mistakes made by the above students, who find some of these words confusing, displeasing and difficult to comprehend. Based on his subjective judgement and experience, the author selected several examples of such words in order to point out their particular discrepancies on applying them to both the English and Czech languages. By doing so, the author believes the students will avoid making mistakes, when searching and/or using their online references. ER -
RAUŠER, Daniel. Selected English-Czech False Friends and Their Use in the Works of Some Czech Students. \textit{Caracteres}. Salamanca, Spain: Editorial Delirio, Vol. 6, No. 1, p.~209-233. ISSN~2254-4496. 2017.
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