Frazeodydaktyka i jej rola w rozwijaniu (wybranych elementów) kompetencji leksykalnej

The objective of this paper is to investigate the role of teaching phraseology in the development of lexical competence of foreign language learners. In the part of the paper we address the issue of vocabulary from the point of view of LL2 and argue that phrases are an important element of foreign language vocabulary. The second part of the paper is devoted to lexical competence. A new approach to this competence kind is proposed, in the light of which it is seen as consisting of several subcompetences. The phraseological competence elaborated on in this paper is one of them. The third part presents aims and teaching methods in working on phraseologisms in foreign language classes. We further describe some changes in teaching methods that took place over the last decades. The paper underscores the importance of teaching phrases to foreign language learners and the teacher’s role in developing phraseological competence as an important element of lexical competence.