Phraseological units -“A thorn in the side” or “Icing on the cake” for language learners?

Kuzmanovska, Dragana and Koceva, Vesna and Vitanova-Ringaceva, Ana and Kirova, Snezana and Ulanska, Tatjana and Ivanova, Biljana (2021) Phraseological units -“A thorn in the side” or “Icing on the cake” for language learners? EDULearn21, 13th International conference on education and new learning technologies. ISSN 2340-1117

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Abstract

Phraseological units are a specific group of lexical items that have recently been at the core of the
research of many linguists around the world. The interest in their research from different points of view
leads us to ask ourselves the question what lexical category they actually are. While researching this
topic, we came across two different points of view: some scholars c linguists consider them "A THORN
IN THE SIDE " and others "ICING ON THE CAKE".
That is why we set ourselves the goal of doing research that will refer to exactly this category of lexical
items and which, by summarizing the results of the prepared questionnaires, will give us a modest
explanation of this puzzle of ours, which has been challenging us for a long time. So, our idea is to use
previously prepared questionnaires containing 10 practical exercises with phraseological units; these
exercises should be completed by circling, matching, or supplementing. These questionnaires will be
used to survey the third- and fourth-year students studying German, English, and Italian as foreign
languages, and, of course Macedonian as their mother tongue, at the Faculty of Philology at the
University "Goce Delcev" - Stip, the Republic of North Macedonia. About 50 students from the third and
fourth year of study in the listed languages will be included, who we believe have mastered the foreign
language at a higher level, which of course includes a good knowledge of the stated target category of
phraseological units. We believe that this modest linguistic research of ours will be of great benefit, first
of all, to us, teachers, in order to get information from the students on how to approach teaching
phraseological units and how to more easily bring them closer to our target group, students- philologists
from the Faculty of Philology at UGD-Stip, and to encourage them to use these correctly and to a greater
extent in their written and oral communication, i.e. to raise the level of knowledge of the language they
are studying through the use of a greater number of phraseological units. In short, we aim to point out
that phraseological units are not A THORN IN THE SIDE, but, on the contrary, language ornaments or
ICING ON THE CAKE, and we would be able to do that after receiving feedback from students - their
attitudes towards this specific lexical category. We hope that with this research we will give a new
direction to the thinking of young linguists and all language lovers in general.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Biljana Petkovska
Date Deposited:	09 Sep 2021 08:39
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2021 08:39
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/28300

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