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The study maps the scholarly research activities of the Department of Slovak Language and Literature of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the Catholic University in Ružomberok with a focus on the results achieved within the framework of Slovak studies linguistic research in the years 2018 – 2023. The department is an institution with a mature, clearly formed research profile in the field of phraseology and didactics of Slovak as a mother tongue. In the field of phraseological research, the study approaches projects focused on biblical phraseology. Part of the text is, on the one hand, a description of the main publication outputs, which were the results of completed research of an international nature; on the other, an outline of the expected contribution of the current research, in which an interdisciplinary linguistic-theological approach is used in the analysis of biblical idioms and their motivational basis. In the field of didactics of Slovak as a mother tongue, the study presents key publications that reflect not only the history and current state of teaching Slovak, but (in relation to new challenges and perspectives in the European context) also outline certain prognoses and visions for this educational field. In further parts of the text, the research plans of the department towards the future are presented and its particularities and research focus are emphasized.