LINGUISTIC AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF TEACHING ENGLISH IDIOMS AND OTHER FIXED EXPRESSIONS THROUGH COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH

The noteworthiness of integrating the teaching of idioms and other fixed expressions throughcommunicative approach has appeared as imperative in the context of scientific fact with an axiomaticvalue that the main aim of learning a foreign language consists in the formation of communicativecompetence – the learners’ aptness to understand and produce language in order to communicatesuccessfully. The paper at hand discusses the linguistic and pedagogic implications of teaching idiomsand other fixed expressions through communicative approach. Research has revealed that the misuse ofidioms and other fixed expressions is the cause of the errors committed in the production of language.What’s more, the errors at the level of idioms and other fixed expressions are universally recognized asthe most appropriate indicator of distinguishing amongst natives from the non-native speakers even ifthe later have a high level of communicative competence in English.