The phraseodidactic potential of newer approaches to foreign language teaching and learning

Erla Hallsteinsdóttir; Marios Chrissou

doi:10.54103/milanoup.305

The phraseodidactic potential of newer approaches to foreign language teaching and learning

Authors

Erla Hallsteinsdóttir

Aarhus University

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7107-2541 (unauthenticated)

Marios Chrissou

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6283-3302 (unauthenticated)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/milanoup.305.c736

Synopsis

An important task of foreign language teaching is to promote the lexical competence by initiating acquisition in the field of phraseology. One of the most influential models in the design of phraseology-related vocabulary teaching and learning is Peter Kühn's phraseodidactic three-step model of identification, encoding and active use of phrasemes. In this article, we introduce the three-step model and then discuss its theoretic and didactic implications and usability in relation to a selection of newer didactic approaches. Our hypothesis is that the three-step model is not sufficient as a didactic principle, and that other didactic approaches, such as the plurilingual approach and task-based learning, can contribute significantly to improve the teaching and thereby the learning process of phraseology in foreign languages.

Author Biographies

Erla Hallsteinsdóttir, Aarhus University

Erla Hallsteinsdóttir is associate professor in German Business Communication at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. She studied Icelandic and German linguistics, literature, translation and foreign language teaching at the University of Iceland and Leipzig University. Her main areas of research and teaching include phraseology and vocabulary, corpus linguistics, text linguistics, intercultural communication and intercultural understanding, stereotypes, business and organisational communication, sustainability, German-Danish cooperation, language teaching (German and Danish as neighbouring languages) and comparative linguistics. She is a board member and treasurer of the European Society of Phraseology and the Danish Association of German Studies.

Marios Chrissou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Marios Chrissou is Professor at the Faculty of German Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he has served since 2001. He has been involved in the Master’s Programme “The Teaching of German as a Foreign Language” at the Hellenic Open University since 2001 and has served as its Director since 2017. His research focuses on linguistics and teaching of German as a foreign language. From 2022 to 2025, he participated in the Erasmus+ project “Plurilingual Phraseology: Learning Multiword Units Through English.” Since 2025, he has been a member of the Executive Board of the European Society for Phraseology (EUROPHRAS).