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| Knowledge is power. Teach away. |
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| Right on, Soup -- but I usually find the students are teaching me, while I am reduced to explaining an older slang expression in their reading that puzzles them. |
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| Generally I avoid it with children, they pick it up so quickly anyway. For my adult students I do teach slang, especially that which borders on idiomatic phrases. |
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| Itīs not so important, I think, because all the slangs changes each day...I think itīs just a way to show your students you know many things about english like culture or something like that. Cheers!!! |
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So do it only to motivate students a bit. Not too much. Not that effective a use of class time. DD EFL CLASSROOM 2.0 |
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| It's alright, especially if it's for conversation purposes. But I tell my students that slang is considered informal language and therefore cannot be used in all types of settings. |
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| I'm working as a teacher in a primary school. No matter how strange this might be, I make use of cockney rimes to work phonetic discrimination together with voc. Strictly speaking, Cockney is not slang, I grant it , and yet it is important pupils should be exposed to variant forms. |
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| Iīm currantly working on diploma thesis dealing with problem whether teach English slang words and phrases or not. I would like you to place your opinions on this issue. Thanx. Paul. |
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| Bethany made a good point: slang is not a formal language and as such, in my opinion, it should not be taught at the expense of formal language tuition. Moreover, I don't buy the other comment about knowledge being power: to know slang would surely only bring credence within a narrow band of slang-users. People regardless of age pick up slang outside of the classroom anyway, so why bring it in? |
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