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Despite growing theoretical work, idiomatic expressions receive limited attention in EFL, ESP, and EAP classrooms. This study addresses the challenge of developing idiomatic competence among English learners in Slovakia within the one-term course “English Lexicology and Phraseology.” It tests 51 second-year undergraduates twice using simile-focused tests and compares results with a statistical t-Test. 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D.  \nConstantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia [zhrdlickova@ukf.sk](zhrdlickova@ukf.sk)  \nORCID: 0000-0003-2670-0171  \nAbstract  \nIdioms are a colourful and fascinating aspect of English which are commonly used in all types of language, formal and informal, spoken and written. Despite the emerging theoretical accounts of idioms up to now, little attention has been paid to teaching and learning idiomatic expressions in English as a Foreign Language, English for Specific Purposes or English for Academic Purposes classroom. Developing idiomatic competence among English language learners in Slovakia remains a formidable challenge. Secondyear undergraduates of the study programmes ‘Teacher Training of English Language and Literature’ (single major study) and ‘Teacher Training of English Language and Literature (double major study) need to master different types of idioms within one-term course in‘English Lexicology and Phraseology’. Their language skills will increase rapidly if they can understand and use them confidently and correctly. The communication role of idiomatic comparisons is often neglected, as well. The aim of the paper is to find out their level of knowledge of standard idiomatic comparisons at the beginning and the end of the course. The paper intends to reveal how students of different nationalities – Slovak, Hungarian, Russian and Ukrainian – are able to explain the meaning of similes used in example sentences in English or their mother tongue. Altogether 51 students are tested twice via tests focused on similes, and their results are compared via a statistical t-Test. The results from the initial test show that their knowledge of idiomatic comparisons was not very wide. However, the results from the final test prove that they were motivated to learn idioms, and thus they extended their knowledge of idiomatic comparisons significantly. In addition, the paper suggests some implications for teaching and learning similes and phraseological units in general.  \nKeywords: Comparison; Simile; Metaphor; Translation; Topic; Vehicle; Idiomatic Competence.  \n© Author(s) . 2023. Published by Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the license CC BY 4.0  \n1. INTRODUCTION  \nIt seems that idioms are a fascinating aspect of English for many students of the Department of English Language and Culture of the Faculty of Education. From pedagogical experience, it can be said that single and double major students of Slovak, Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian and Serbian nationalities like writing up bachelor’s or master’s theses focused on searching for idiomatic expressions in pieces of literature forchildren or adults as well as identifying their translation strategies in books published in their mother tongue, or searching for them in textbooks used in primary, secondary or language schools. They are eager to investigate this aspect of English, but they face many problems. Firstly, it is often impossible for them to guess the meaning of an idiom from the words it contains. Secondly, the Internet offers plenty of online dictionaries and for learners it is more comfortable to use them. When they do not use printed versions of dictionaries, they make mistakes in identifying the correct structures of idioms. Thirdly, they are not aware of nominal, adjectival or verbal variations in British, American or Australian English, let alone the variations in similes (Parizoska & Filipović Petrović, 2017) . In addition, since Slovak punctuation is difficult for foreign students, they have problems with correct translations of idioms from English into Slovak. To enhance the quality of the final theses, they should have an excellent eye for detail.  \nWithin the only course in ‘English Lexicology and Phrase","cbCaikusZD55dsfu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikusZD55dsfu","pdf",398264,17,"English","# Introduction\n## Course context and student challenges\n## Definitions and theoretical background on similes and comparisons","[{\"question\":\"What is the study’s main aim?\",\"answer\":\"The paper aims to determine students’ level of knowledge of standard idiomatic comparisons at the beginning and end of the course.\"},{\"question\":\"How was students’ knowledge evaluated?\",\"answer\":\"Altogether 51 students were tested twice with tests focused on similes, and their results were compared using a statistical t-Test.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the initial and final test results show?\",\"answer\":\"The initial results indicate limited knowledge of idiomatic comparisons, while the final results demonstrate that students were motivated and extended their knowledge significantly.\"}]","Exploring the Development of Students’ Knowledge of Conventionalised Similes in English Lexicology and Phraseology - A Comparative Study | PDF",1792066793,43]