translate English to French: Finally, establishing interconnections through language awareness could help French dispel its image as an "ivory tower" foreign language, which in turn would necessarily have a positive effect on attitudes towards French (Muller 1998).2 Sensitising pupils to languages and the promotion of language awareness can support language acquisition.
Signalons enfin que l’anglais a repris directement certaines orthographes du français, en même temps que le mot emprunté (royal, religion, confession, prison, art, figure etc.). Dans ce cas, les apprenants qui connaissent déjà le mot anglais correspondant, n’auront en principe qu’à mémoriser pour le français une nouvelle prononciation.