Znajomość frazeologii języka polskiego u młodzieży – wyzwanie dla współczesnej frazeodydaktyki

The aim of the present paper is to investigate how well Polish youth knows their native language phraseology. After a short introduction to the topic of phraseodidactics, the methodology and the results of a study conducted on 133 high school students are presented. In the study, students were asked to fill in a survey examining their knowledge of 80 phraseological units with a zoomorphic component. The survey had been created so that both active and passive knowledge were examined. The findings revealed that not only the richness of the language, phraseologisms included, should be developed at every stage of education but also that there are a number of challenges modern phraseodidactics has to face, such as a possible change in meaning or common inappropriate use of phraseological units.