@article{oai:meilib.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000484, author = {Occhi, Debra J. and Arimura, Yuri and Irinaka, Daichi and Kawano, Keisuke and Maeda, Yuria and Minowa, Asako and Nasu, Shiori and Takimoto, Satomi and Yoshida, Tomohiro}, journal = {比較文化, Comparative culture, the journal of Miyazaki International College}, month = {}, note = {The tradition of student-centered active learning for development of critical thinking at Miyazaki International College provides valuable opportunities for discovery in the classroom. This brief paper outlines the results of one such student project in LL3141, Topics in Linguistics, taught by Debra J Occhi in fall semester of 2013. Students were inspired to undertake this research while reading and discussing Language Contact Meets Cognitive Linguistics: A Case of Getto-suru in Japanese (Horie & Occhi 2001). This paper reviews those findings, presents issues students found especially relevant about loanword behavior discussed in Olah (2007) and about English made in Japan (wasei eigo, discussed in Miller 1997), lists noun loanwords found in Japanese-English dictionaries, presents and analyzes instances of use of the loanword saizu (from English “size”).}, pages = {53--73}, title = {Saizu: A Very Big Loanword in Japanese}, volume = {18}, year = {2013} }