EXPLORING THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF CONVENTIONALISED SIMILES IN ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY AND PHRASEOLOGY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Idioms are a colourful and fascinating aspect of English which commonly used in all types language, formal informal, spoken written. Despite the emerging theoretical accounts idioms up to now, little attention has been paid teaching learning idiomatic expressions as Foreign Language, for Specific Purposes or Academic classroom. Developing competence among language learners Slovakia remains formidable challenge. Second-year undergraduates study programmes ‘Teacher Training Language Literature’ (single major study) Literature (double need master different within one-term course ‘English Lexicology Phraseology’. Their skills will increase rapidly if they can understand use them confidently correctly. The communication role comparisons is often neglected, well. aim paper find out their level knowledge standard at beginning end course. intends reveal how students nationalities – Slovak, Hungarian, Russian Ukrainian able explain meaning similes example sentences mother tongue. Altogether 51 tested twice via tests focused on similes, results compared statistical t-Test. from initial test show that was not very wide. However, final prove were motivated learn idioms, thus extended significantly. In addition, suggests some implications phraseological units general.