UNDERSTANDING OF ANGLICISMS IN THE TEACHING OF SERBIAN LANGUAGE BY PUPILS OF THE FOURTH GRADE OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN 2021 AND 2023 - A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Abstract

The term Anglicism is increasingly present in contemporary literature, but also in teaching contents and programs, as an indispensable part of adapting the Serbian language to the influence of the English language on vocabulary and literary language. Students, as well as teachers, are daily faced with the challenges posed by the placement of anglicisms in professional literature, as well as in literary and artistic texts, so additional types of learning are needed in order to adopt concepts and understand them in the right context. For the above reason, this research deals with and has as its main goal to examine the understanding of English language among fourth-grade pupils of elementary schools from the area of Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvečan in relation to the understanding of English language among fourth-grade pupils from the area of Lebane Municipality. The research included 133 respondents - 84 fourth-grade elementary school pupils in Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvečan and 49 fourth-grade elementary school pupils from Lebane, of different genders and academic achievements. The obtained results show us that there are statistically significant differences between pupils from different areas, where pupils from Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvečan have a greater understanding of anglicisms compared to pupils from the Municipality of Lebane. The obtained results confirm the set research hypothesis.