Functionality of knowledge of secondary school students phraseology in the news news news report

Abstract

The aim of the research is to indicate the ability of students to apply knowledge about the phraseology they acquired during schooling through recognition, understanding, determination of the purpose of using phraseology and through the use of phraseology. The sample of the research consists of four high school students, two grammar schools and two secondary vocational schools, altogether 171 pupils of the third grade. The preliminary test of knowledge, used in this study, contained 14 variables of knowledge of phraseology, which were operationalized mainly as issues of recognition of phraseological and their characteristics. The main result of the correlation analysis is the high and statistically significant correlation between the "Ratings from Serbian language and literature at the end of the second grade" and "Average of all scores", therefore, all 14 variables of the quantified answers of the respondents, which r = 0,421 (which is significantly at the level 0.01). The key results of a qualitative analysis of respondents' responses indicate a low degree of originality in the use of phraseology and the frequent use of conversational phraseology in the titles of socio-political themes. The results of the research showed that in the very small number of cases, students of the third grade of secondary schools (0.6% of the answers) recognize the different stylistic functions of the use of phraseology and most often singulate only one purpose of use. The above findings point to the necessity of using contemporary phrasodiodactic methods, such as the work with shorter texts from daily press, in which students are asked to find phraseology in the context and to master its form, as well as to express linguistic creativity.