TEACHING GERMAN PHRASEMES THROUGH ENGLISH. The role of equivalence

This article delves into the linguistic and pedagogical basis for the PhraseoLab project, whose aim is to promote the learning of German phraseology (collocations, idioms and expressive routine formulae) through English. The methodology adopted in this study, the plurilingual approach, requires the consideration of various phraseological equivalence parameters for the selection of phraseological material for language teaching. Along the qualitative model, aspects related to the prototypical usage of phrasemes must also be taken into account. A corpus-based analysis of frequency applied to collocations is used to refine the traditional model and to provide valuable information in the identification of equivalence levels among phrasemes and in the grading of teaching materials.