Engleski kao dodatni jezik

Apstrakt

In this paper professor Bugarski provides a new perspective on English as a foreign language with regard to its status in Europe and in Serbia-Montenegro. The traditional classification into first, second and foreign languages can be expanded with a new member, whose only representative would be English. The suggested term for this is English as an additional language. This is, in the author's opinion, perhaps the most adequate technical phrase, because it seems to be the most precise one to cover the intended meaning. It refers to the unique status of English in the countries where it is (still) not used officially, i.e. within the category of foreign languages, which is apparently too narrow for its current dimensions.