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[28 Feb 2010 | 3 Comments | ]

Standard vs Slang
EFL learners have difficulty understanding and interacting with native speakers because the nature of native speakers language differ more or less from the artificial language that we, as EFL teachers, use in the classroom.  That’s why, it would be a good idea to teach slang to EFL students to bridge the gap between the language of the books that we usually teach and the language of  every day life that our learners would be forced to understand and use when facing authentic situations and interacting with native speakers.
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