An English-Spanish Glossary of False Cognates.

Abstract

This work is focused on the creation of a bilingual glossary of false cognates that will serve as an instrument to help students of English as a foreign language (L2) during their learning process by improving their knowledge of the language and the better understanding and use of it, since the first stages of their studies. In the paper a brief study of cognates, as well as the main aspects for the elaboration of glossaries are presented. The paper is structures in an introduction, a development, conclusions and recommendations. In the introduction, the problem, its solution and the objectives are stated as well as the results of the bibliographical search about the topics related. In the development the proposal of the glossary and its structures is developed. This work is intended to be a reference document for students and professors of English Language Teaching Major at the University of Matanzas.