Ricerc@Sapienza

The author’s thesis is that both language-teaching methods and vocabulary trainers have so far neglected or underestimated the phenomenon of polysemy, which is typical of high-frequency lexical units. In order to test this hypothesis, the study looks at the Pons 2014 vocabulary trainer „250 Wortschatz-Übungen Deutsch als Fremdsprache“ and examines its entries on the high-frequency verbs ziehen, kommen and gehen. The results suggest that the point at issue deserves further elaboration not merely on the didactical but also on the theoretical-lexicographical level.