TEACHING ENGLISH IDIOMS: TRADITIONAL APPROACH AND CURRENT ONLINE RESOURCES

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of teaching English idioms to non-language students, particularly to the cadets in Moscow Higher All-Arms Command Military School. Emotional potential of idioms in professional military language and in the language of war conflicts enables to use these vocabulary items to increase students’ learning motivation and to develop their cultural background and linguistic competence. The author addresses the main problems the students are faced with and suggests a set of training exercises to overcome or reduce their learning problems. Teaching practice description is accompanied with the analysis of modern online resources aimed at studying idiomatic expressions. Practical experience of using most teaching websites allows the author to arrive at the conclusion that for the time being educational online resources to learn idioms are a valuable but still secondary tool which can make traditional techniques even more effective.