The use of historical linguistic knowledge in the teaching of Hungarian as a Foreign Language

Abstract

This paper presents a selection of historical explanations for several exceptional or irregular features of Hungarian that can be used in the teaching of Hungarian as a foreign language. It also discusses how explanations offered by historical lexicology and idiomology can invigorate the learning process of lexical items. Naturally, these additions are not to replace but to supplement other explanations such as those offered by contrastive linguistics.