The contribution advocates a systematic inclusion of phraseology in university programs of the study of German as a Foreign Language. The author presents her own model of instruction that is based on a multimedial teaching and study material. The objective is to develop not only the students' linguistic competence, but also their metalinguistic awareness of phrasemes as a specific linguistic phenomenon. The author's aim is to give a theoretically well founded description of teaching processes focusing on a symbiosis of mediating linguistic as well as metalinguistic competence in the field of phraseology in German as a Foreign Language
