Future of Teaching Phraseological Units on Higher Education Level: Taming the Tongue or Raising Motivation of Students?

Abstract

Eager interest of teaching phraseological units is still high, though English language tries to adapt new reality, be more simply to communicate without complex constructive sentences or combined and too long words. In the article, at the beginning, there is given brief literature review of the history of phraseology both in Georgian and in English language, later there are discussed the views of the various Georgian scientists as well as foreign scientists. After reviewing the literature, there is presented a small case study conducted at Akaki Tsereteli State University (Kutaisi, Georgia) in spring, 2023. It was done by anonymous questionnaire and the researcher gathered both qualitative and quantitative data and analyzed them. Based on the research, the researcher outlined main challenges of teaching phraseological units, such as difference between culture, translation problems and lack of motivation from students to study new phraseological units. The researcher analyzed the results in details and stated that despite the fact that English level which defines students’ motivation to study phraseology, there are some modern tools which encourage teachers to raise students’ motivation and not making learning process taming the tongue. In particular, these can be achieved through modern ways, using mobile and its applications in classroom and teaching process. This article might be interesting for the participants of the research, other teachers at the institution and all the stakeholders who work on phraseology.